Surviving Black Hawk Down: True story behind Ridley Scott film and hit Netflix docuseries

Ridley Scott’s 2001 war film Black Hawk Down divided critics when it was first released in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

The new three-part series Surviving Black Hawk Down, produced by Scott’s own production company Ridley Scott Associates and directed by Jack MacInnes, revisits the Battle of Mogadishu through a documentary lens and invites both American and Somali survivors to recall and describe the events in their own words.

As Bowden wrote in his book: “Insurgents shot down two American Black Hawk helicopters with rocket-propelled grenades.