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Black Hawk Down (2001) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
With Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore, Eric Bana. The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis.
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When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.
Black Hawk Down - Full Cast & Crew. Ridley Scott's harrowing account of the doomed 1993 American mission to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord.
- Ridley Scott
- Josh Hartnett
- Hugh Dancy
- Eric Bana
As Matthew Eversmann
Josh Hartnett played Staff Sergeant Matthew Eversmann, a young soldier from the 75th Ranger Regimentwho received his first command right before the mission. Eversmann led his squad through the chaotic 18 hours of the Battle of Mogadishu, and in real life he earned a Bronze Star Medal with Valor device for his actions during the crisis. Before being cast in Black Hawk Down, Hartnett was already known for teen horror movie roles in Halloween H20 andThe Faculty. He also starred in another war mo...
As Kurt “Doc” Schmid
Sergeant First Class Kurt Schmid was the medic for Eversmann’s squad in Black Hawk Down, but in real life, he worked with the Delta Force instead of the Rangers. Schmid is part of one of the most harrowing scenes in the movie in which he has to operate on one of his wounded comrades inside a dirty abandoned building with little to no medical supplies. It is a gripping moment that shows the challenges these soldiers faced. Hugh Dancy was cast as Schmid after starring as David Copperfield in a...
As Norm “Hoot” Gibson
Eric Bana joins the cast of Black Hawk Down as Delta Force soldier Sergeant First Class Norm “Hoot” Gibson. Although chafing against authority, Hoot showed his dedication by returning to the battle multiple times to aid his fellow soldiers. Hoot was a fictional character created to represent soldiers John Macejunas, Norm Hooten, Thanh Nguyen, and Matthew Rierson. He gets some of the best standout action hero moments in the movie. After working as a comedian and sketch comedy performer in Aust...
Black Hawk Down is a 2001 war film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, and co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, from a screenplay by Ken Nolan. It is based on the 1999 eponymous non-fiction book by journalist Mark Bowden, about the crew of a Black Hawk helicopter that was shot down during the Battle of Mogadishu.
U.S. soldiers take heavy fire while trying to capture a warlord's associates in Mogadishu, Somalia.
