In 2002, Ridley Scott delivered his frenetic struggle epic Black Hawk Down to audiences, incomes widespread popularity of his harrowing depiction of a determined rescue effort following a mission gone mistaken in Somalia. The movie particularly recounts the real-life Battle of Mogadishu, primarily based on the novel of the identical identify by journalist Mark Bowden, wherein a U.S. Military Black Hawk helicopter crashed behind enemy traces. Now, over 23 years because the story first reached the large display screen, Netflix is heading straight to the supply to color a true-to-life image of what occurred with assist from the actual folks concerned on each side of the battle. The streamer launched a brand new trailer for its three-part docuseries Surviving Black Hawk Down taking viewers onto the battlefield forward of its launch in February.

Whisking audiences again to October 3, 1993, the footage opens with a tense scene of U.S. troopers transferring via the sand-clouded streets of Mogadishu as a survivor recollects the scent of blood and gunpowder within the air. Their purpose that day was to strike down militia leaders loyal to Normal Mohamed Farrah Aidid to safe U.N. aid operations. Pandemonium breaks out, nevertheless, when the three Blackhawk helicopters are shot down with RPGs. Audio from information studies reminds viewers of what folks all over the world have been listening to that day whereas the troopers on the bottom bear in mind what it was prefer to be surrounded and left to combat a complete metropolis towards them. Like Scott’s work, Surviving Black Hawk Down would not lack cinematic aptitude, however the actual accounts of American models who felt the hopelessness of the scenario add weight and actuality to all of it.

What makes the documentary stand out is that it isn’t simply telling the U.S. facet of the battle. Somali fighters and residents additionally give their accounts from that day and the sense of pleasure they felt from taking down such a strong enemy. Whereas the American troopers finishing up the operation in Mogadishu noticed their armed adversaries because the “dangerous guys,” the footage makes it clear that there is no black or white in struggle, because the Somalis attest to how U.S. bombing destroyed households and impressed the folks to strike again. It is set to be an entire depiction of “the horror and heroism” on the middle of the battle with loads of first-person interviews guiding viewers via every facet of the battle with rather more accuracy than Scott’s authentic movie.

Who Is Behind ‘Surviving Black Hawk Down’?

Scott had a hand in re-examining considered one of his finest movies with Surviving Black Hawk Down, as his industrial manufacturing firm, RSA Movies, is behind all of it. Directorial duties for the documentary, nevertheless, fell to Jack MacInnes, an award-winner with expertise capturing the chaotic nature of contemporary fight in 2022’s Leaving Afghanistan. His resume additionally options credit within the acclaimed BBC docuseries Contained in the Commons and a manufacturing nod for Netflix’s Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99. He is joined by producers Jamal Osman and Emma Supple together with government producers Dominic Crossley-Holland and Tom Pearson.

Surviving Black Hawk Down premieres on Netflix on February 10. Take a look at the trailer within the participant above.