aidid, mohammed farah

With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters.

Explores the actual story of the group of United States Special Forces that got trapped in the city of Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993 when fighting the warlord Mohammed Farah Aidid.

In October 1993, nearly one hundred elite U.S. troops dropped by helicopter into a teeming market in the heart of Somalia. Their mission was supposed to take an hour. Instead they were pinned down through the night, fighting thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly injured.