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Black Hawk Down

2001

In 1993, a U.S. raid to capture a Somali warlord's lieutenants in Mogadishu goes catastrophically wrong when helicopters are shot down, trapping soldiers in a desperate, hours-long firefight through hostile streets. Ridley Scott's intense, visceral war film.

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