The Essence of Combat: Making 'Black Hawk Down' (2002)

Nearly every possible element to making the film Black Hawk Down (2001) is examined here in great detail. Both behind the scenes material and interviews with the cast, crew and actual rangers inform us how this film was pulled off so perfectly.

Cast (27)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Ridley Scott

Self

Eric Bana

Self

L

Lee Van Arsdale

Self - Military Consultant

Orlando Bloom

Self

M

Mark Bowden

Self

Ewen Bremner

Self

Jerry Bruckheimer

Self

Tim Burke

Self

Gabriel Casseus

Self

Kim Coates

Self

Neil Corbould

Self

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

Self

Hugh Dancy

Self

B

Billy Dowd

Self

Ron Eldard

Self

William Fichtner

Self

Steven Ford

Self

Harry Humphries

Self

Branko Lustig

Self

Jeremy Piven

Self

Sammy Sheldon

Self (as Sammy Howarth-Sheldon)

Sam Shepard

Self

Tom Sizemore

Self

Johnny Strong

Self

Brian Van Holt

Self

Ian Virgo

Self

Hans Zimmer

Self- Composer

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