I saw Black Hawk Down at a young age and it always stuck with me! What are some movies that you remember as favorites growing up!? As always, thank you for all the support and suggestions!

“Gordy’s gone man. I’ll be outside. Good luck.”

SFC Randy Shughart and MSG Gary Gordon, the two Delta Force guys that volunteered to cover the downed chopper and died doing it both got the Medal Of Honor.

Tom Hardy, Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremner, Orlando Bloom, Eric Bana, William Fichtner, Jeremy Piven, Josh Hartnett, Nikolai Coster Waldeau, this film is a literal who's who of people who are insanely famous for their acting careers. this movie is now a 20 year old classic!

The thing about Shughart and Gordon going down to defend the second crash site is that it clearly wasn't just instinct or conditioned reflex in the heat of the moment (as some people try to minimized acts of valor). They had a perfect view of what they were getting into, and they even had orders to stay aloft rather than going down to the deck. Their request to go down was denied twice, so they had plenty of time to think about what they were doing and ample justification to back away without losing face. Instead, they persisted until they were finally allowed to go, and they gave their lives protecting Durant. 26:23 Here's an interesting fun fact about this scene. You noticed that Tom Sizemore seems calm and generally walks rather than running and ducking while under fire. Some people criticized his performance for that in this movie, but that's what the real Colonel McKnight actually did. He believed that if the inexperienced soldiers saw him showing fear, they might panic. That's a philosophy British officers have followed for centuries (KZfaqr Lindybeige even did a video about it called "British Officers Don't Duck!"). 26:50 The plan was for the men on foot to use the APCs for cover as they walked out, but the drivers hit the gas and left them behind. At that point, they had no choice but to run for their lives to reach the safe zone. The run became known as "The Mogadishu Mile." A grisly epilogue: After the battle, the bodies of the Americans killed at crash site 2 were desecrated and dragged through the streets, and photos and videos of the abused corpses horrified the world. One of Randy Shughart's friends who viewed the body when it was recovered told Shugart's wife that she wouldn't have been able to recognize him.

A "fun" fact is that Mike Durant (the pilot who was captured) was released without any concessions from America, primarily because it was very bluntly communicated to the Somalian warlords that if he wasn't handed over the US would begin leveling the city. To back it up, a full carrier group was deployed to the area along with mechanized infantry and ground attack aircraft, and Durant was immediately released alongside a Nigerian soldier who had also been captured.

The soundtrack is almost as incredible as the film itself.

My uncle was one of the pilots at this event, but because he was still active duty when the movie came out, they weren't allowed to use his name. He and Michael Durant, the pilot that got captured are best friends and still close to this day. I always knew my uncle was in special forces, but not what he did til the movie came out. That's when his brother (who's married to my dad's sister) told me because they wouldn't go see the movie because it hit too close to home. That actually inspired me to go into helicopter repair when I signed up for the army. I wanted to be a pilot, but my hearing wasn't good enough. So I figured if I couldn't fly em, I'd fix em.

The weird thing is at the end of the film Eric Bana's character restocks and heads back into town - that actually happened but it was even more insane in real life because he didn't take any weapons at all - instead "Mace" who the character is mainly based on put on a pair of Chinos and a Polo shirt and went back in to find the missing Black Hawk crew guys by pretending to be a reporter. It was so unbelievable they toned it down for the film. I say mainly based on beacause 90% of what is shown is what "Mace" did but he's named after another delta guy "Hoot" who did the other 10% shown. With the film they did that a bit mashing several people together to better serve a narrative. Useless Trivia - the pic of Durant's family is actually Eric Bana''s family because they didn't have a prop but Eric lent them one of his family photos to use.

On May 23, 1994, this was the date that Shughart and Gordon were posthumously decorated with the Medal of Honor for protecting the crew of Super Six Four. They were the first Medal of Honor recipients since the Vietnam War. The selfless heroic act of those two men always makes me cry. Pure courage and balls of steel. Mike Durant is still alive today because of the sacrifice that Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart made. Two of the most elite fighters on planet Earth voluntarily fought until their death to help a helicopter pilot that they weren't sure would survive. That is pure heroism. Deciding to fight and die for someone that might still die even if you performed above and beyond your call of duty.

Michael Durant, the one captured, went to see Black Hawk Down when the theater was empty. Veterans often don’t like crowds so they go when it’s nearly empty. Anyway he sat in the back and when movie was over, he sat there very emotional and when the lights came up, across from him was one of the soldiers from the raid, the one who had his thumb bandaged up. They approached each other, hugged and cried.

Casualties aren’t just the dead, but the wounded, captured, and otherwise MIA; Blackburn would of been the first casualty

When I was in the Marines, a buddy of mine used to go on a 6 mile run almost everyday. He said that the scene at the end of this movie (with the guys running back to the stadium) is what motivated him to do it. He just wanted to be prepared if a similar situation ever arose.

Your wife loves Ridley Scott, you have to watch Gladiator!

I remember watching this with my dad and him commenting on the sound of the RPG’s. My dad was on a patrol in Vietnam and they walked into an ambush in a rubber tree plantation where they were hit with lots and lots of RPG fire and lost a bunch of people. Not long before he died I remember him telling me one morning that he didn’t sleep well because he dreamed he was dodging B40 rockets all night. He had nightmares about RPGs his whole life I guess. Of all the Vietnam movies though, he said We Were Soldiers is probably the most realistic that he’d seen. Y’all should check it out some time.

The ones with camo covers on their helmets were Rangers. The ones with black helmets were Delta.

We're going to need some We Were Soldiers one day.

The scene with Shugart and Gordon makes me so sad yet proud to be an American the fact they knew it was a suicide mission and still went in for their brothers in arms is beautiful.

Another movie based on a true story is The Ghost And The Darkness, where 2 male lions go on a killing spree in 1890' Kenya, and only an Irish Engineer and an American hunter try to stop the threat. Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas star in this Action Adventure Horror film.

Gordon and Shughart were Delta forces, snipers. In basic training, we ran an obstacle course name after them, and it was one of the hardest ones I've ever done. I know of these two guys before I joined the military, but I looked more into Delta because of them and decided that I wanted to go that route. It is not that easy to join, but I had a great recruiter to help guide me on the right path. When I finally got recruited by special forces, it was too late. I was injured, and my career was over.

Shugart & Gordon: If you live in America, you live in the shadow of giants The guy who played SGT Jeff Streucker (“everyone feels the same as you”) completely nailed it. If you’ve ever seen an interview with the actual man, you can totally picture him speaking to his team like that, word-for-word.

The pilot that helped Delta operator Busch to his Little Bird in the first Black Hawk that was shot down was the actual pilot that did it in real life.

The ridiculous but true story that I love about this movie is that Ridley Scott cast a bunch of amazing stars and actors for all these speaking parts, and when they all showed up on set he couldn't recognize any of them. With their identical costumes , military hair cuts (basically shaved heads) and their camoflage face paint, they all looked identical. So he had the costume department write their character names on their helmets so the audience could tell them apart.

On them being calm in the helicopter, in the book there's a bit on how they train. They practice everything, even crashing.

Something a lot of people don't know is that they completed their mission that day, in spite of everything that went wrong.

The thing to think about is that if Blackburn hadn't fallen out of the helicopter, the mission would have gone off without a hitch. That was the first domino. Because there was a man down and critically injured, they had to spend precious extra time on the ground tending to him, which gave the militia time to get organised enough that they had RPGs ready to start firing at the helicopters. So then Wolcott's Black Hawk got shoit down, meaning they had to stop everything and scramble to cover the rescue on that. Which meant that they needed additional air cover for far longer, with an enamy who had become fully dug-in and were now well equipped. So then Durant's Black Hawk goes down too, and that was it. They were STUCK. All because one man fell out of the helicopter, it all just snowballed ...

Josh Hartnett is such an underrated actor and he kinda checked out of Hollywood.

The movie doesn’t mention this both because it was classified at the time and because the characters were already confusing but they had members of the Air Force 24th STS (which was who Ty Burrell played) and DEVGRU aka SEAL team Six was present in Mogadishu on CIA covert operation, however they also participated in the Battle.

This had a dynasty cast. Tom hardy and Jamie Lannister from game of thrones were here.

One of my favorite reactors and one of my favorite movies of all time. Black Hawk Down : A Story of Modern War by Mark Bowden and In the Company of Heroes by Michael Durant (the kidnapped pilot) are a must read. Randy and Gary will never be forgotten.

Like Mike Tyson said: "Everyone's got a plan until he gets punched in the face."

I have to say I just ADORE how cute you two are when watching. Especially with the hand holding. True love! :)

"No plan survives first contact with the enemy"

If you guys are enjoying the war movies and TV shows, I'd highly recommend Generation Kill. It's set in the 2003 Iraq War, following a Rolling Stone reporter (who was a real reporter) assigned to a Recon Marines unit and depicts the good and bad of that war. It's relatively short at 7 episodes One of the marines in the show, Rudy, is played by himself (the actual marine who served). I believe the adaptation was written by some of the people who worked on The Wire - so it's very gritty and great at pulling you into that world, warts and all...swearing and all too

My dad's childhood friend that he joined the military with was Sgt. Pilla and there is a memorial for him in Vineland, New Jersey. Never knew till I was joining the Marines and he told me stories of them together and my dad said that when this all went down his commander called him to his office and said that Dom (pilla) was KIA. Made me serve almost 11 years and makes me hope no one forgets the ones we lost along the way

I was in the Marine Corps when this happened I was working Security Forces for a place in Virginia. I remember coming off duty and seeing a bunch of Marines standing in the break room staring at the TV and CNN was showing locals dragging around a dead pilot, desecrating his body. So sad and angering.

You should check out ‘Lord of War’ with Nicolas Cage.

The guy who talked about not scaring the children was the dad from Kindergarten Cop

Solid, intense movie with a large cast. I've always enjoyed Sam Shepard as an actor. It's a shame he's no longer with us.

This movie never lets up once the mission starts, the documentary that came with the original 3 disc special edition is heartbreaking. Thank you to everyone who has ever wore the uniform for this country.😎

I really recommend the book. The event was so much more burtal and crazy than even the film portrays, they actually toned down some of the violence in the film.

Nelson: Hey, Twombly! the convoy's leaving! Hey Twombly! Twombly: What? Nelson: I think they forgot us! Twombly: WHAT!? Nelson: Never mind!

I would suggest you watch 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi. More true events and real American heroes.

The Delta guys are wearing black helmets (as opposed to the camo helmets of the Rangers) making it a bit easier to spot them in scenes. The first chopper that was shot down, the guy who gets shot and keeps fighting is Delta. The guy throwing that grenade through a tiny window - Delta. The two snipers requesting to go down to the crashed chopper alone - Delta. These guys are on another level.

Hacksaw Ridge! ❤❤

I would encourage you guys to watch the first medal of honor recipient ever recorded March 4, 2002. His name was John A. Chapman (SGT; United States Air Force). That 10min clip is better than any war movie you will ever see but also one of the saddest. It defines heroism, sacrifice and courage.

Tom Sizemore is so Made for War Movies !

Memphis Belle. I was reminded of this gem earlier and made a point of listing it here. Without spoilers, it is about an American bomber crew over WW2 Europe. Lot of recognizable faces from early 90's movies.

The thing I always think about is Gary and Randy went in there knowing the chances of coming out alive but did it anyway to help the guys in the crash

The soldiers that ran out at the end call their run the Mogadishu Mile.

Has got to be one of my fave military movies. Such a ensemble cast. So many future heavy hitter actors.

"Our man is down behind enemy lines, now what the fuck is the problem?" Favorite line from that one.

Eric Bana was such a badass at the time. Would be nice to see more of him.

That bull that was shot multiple times and still is kicking reminds me of the late combat controller John Chapman.

Irene!

This is a great demo disc if you have a really good home theater. It sounds like there's bullets flying by your head, the sound design is incredible

I remember the first time I was stationed in the Horn of Africa, I never got used to seeing 10 or 11 year olds walking down the street with AK's

Also recommended: Lone Survivor and 13 Hours, both based on real events from a few years ago and very similar to Black Hawk Down, in Lone Survivor also a failed mission, where 4 American soldiers are surrounded and fighting against a hundred Taliban guerrillas in the mountains of Afghanistan, and in 13 Hours, the terrorist attack on the American embassy in Bengazhi, and the struggle for survival of the embassy workers and the soldiers who guarded it, in a kind of battle of "The Alamo", fighting during a whole night, against the terrorists and trying to flee from the embassy and from that country.

Some missable actors in this movie and their famous role(s): -Ewan McGregor: Kenobi (Star Wars prequels) -Tom Sizemore: Cherrito (Heat), Horvath (Saving Private Ryan) -Wiliam Fichtner: Sandman (MW3) -Glenn Morshower: Overlord (CoD4, MW2), Morshower (Michael Bay's Transformers) -Ewen Bremner: Charlie (Wonder Woman) -Tom Hardy: Bane (The Dark Knight Rises), Eddie Brock and Venom (Venom) -Orlando Bloom: Legolas (The Lord of the Rings), Will Turner (Pirates of the Carribean) -Jason Isaacs: Lucius Malfoy (Harry Potter), Capt. Hook (Peter Pan 2003) -Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Jamie Lannister (Game of Thrones) -Ron Eldard: John Reilly (Sleepers), Louis Dainard (Super 8) -Ioan Gruffud: Reed (Fantastic Four) -Jeremy Piven: Ari Gould (Entourage)

In honor of all our heroes of Task Force Ranger who went down range and never came back. In memory of Garry and Randy who died protecting Super Six 4.

I dont comment on vids much, but yall have become "go to's" of mine lately. This is one of my favorite movies that not many have reacted to. Super Pumped! Im about to watch now, but im pretty sure you guys loved it.

If you want know about what really happened, you should read the book, "Blackhawk Down" by Mark Bowden. The movie is based on the book. I read the book back when it first came out. I highly recommend it. The author worked hard to get the details right, including the dialog. He personally interviewed many of the actual men depicted in the movie, and recorded each conversation from both of the people in them. I think the movie if fairly faithful to the book, but I haven't done a careful analysis of them, so I don't really know.

I've never seen this one, but someone once told me it's a lot like one of my favorites, "Bat 21" with Gene Hackman & Danny Glover. 'War isn't always about enemies.'

YES ONE OF THE BEST WAR MOVIES EVER MADE! THE SCENE THAT THE HELICOPTERS TOOK OFF INTRODUCED KID ME TO VOODOO CHILD AND IVE LOVED IT EVER SINCE

There were some significant changes from real events and certain people were combined together, one was erased almost entirely because of the horrible things they did IRL after this. The film is historical fiction but there are books about what really happened that you can find through Hoopla or in a library.

Oooh, I'm early, I'll wait patiently with my drink and popcorn for everyone to get here and get settled.

You guys have to check out the Extended version, it's actually what they showed in the theater.

Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart both were awarded the Medal of Honor for there bravery.

This movie is in my Top10 i absolutely love it. The sniper scene always stuck with me. Knowing they probably didn't have a chance with back up for a while is so badass. Balls of Steel!

You guys really have a wicked way to analize movies. I recommend Memento, Intacto, Abre los ojos (the original version of Vanilla Sky), Requiem for a dream, and an Argentinian movie called Nine Queens.

thank you for reviewing this guys. you are great ppl, i appreciate it!

For an historicaly correct report on that event, read Mark Bowdens "Black Hawk Down", the movie has some changes to the historical events and roles of the characters. The pilot that put in the Delta Snipers, provided and guided air support for them until his helicopter was hit multiple times and had to crash land at a safe place out of the combat zone.

Wow, if you guys haven't seen Gladiator, directed by Ridley Scott that is a must watch.

After the events of Black Hawk Down and Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, the military developed armored HMMWV's to add protection to the vehicle and the gunner

Hey they misrepresented the Air Force as we were a part of that action. The army medic is actually a Air Force Para-rescuemen(PJ). There were 2 attach to their unit and won the Air Force Cross the only medal behind the Medal of Honor. He is the medic that keeps running across the street to help people. His name was Tim Wilkerson. The medic at around 15:45 is the PJ the link explains the Air Force part in this www.airforcemag.com/article/0694heroes/

The force consisted of: B Company, 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment C Squadron, 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D) A deployment package of 16 helicopters and personnel from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (160th SOAR), which included MH-60 Black Hawks and AH/MH-6 Little Birds. Navy SEALs from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) Air Force Pararescuemen and Combat Controllers from the 24th Special Tactics Squadron.

Prometheus is also a good movie directed by ridley Scott.

I think you'll like "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi", you should give it a watch

The guy defending the first crash was named SSgt. Daniel Busch he unfortunately died of his injuries in Germany. He was posthumously awarded the silver star.

The helicopter unit involved in this battle are the best trained Helicopter pilots in the World, thr 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment. There main job is to work with units like Army's Delta Force(the guys wearing the Skateboard style helmets) and the Navy-s Seal Team Six, who are the US military's best troops handling the hardest missions. They train several times a year on what to do in the event of a crash because there missions are so dangerous they have a higher likely hood of getting shot at(they go where other regular military units won't). Thats is why they seem so calm. A few years prior to this about five of the Delta Force guys who fought in this battle had survived a Crash after a hostage rescue in Panama

We were soldiers-!

I recommend We Were Soldiers

Hey y’all! Howdy once again from north Texas!!! Yet another great reaction to a great film! Samantha cracks me up with the way she puts up her arm in front of her as in self defense when something untoward happens! And of course Mr. Schmitt sits all stoic...greatness!!! Keep up the great work!!!🤠

You have become my fav channel, so cool watching movies with you. Going through em all lol. Thank you!

If you get a chance, read the book. Along with a ton of extra background, it's actually even more riveting. This is pretty excellent, though. Great acting & filmmaking all around.

The book Black Hawk Down is amazing and gut wrenching. Michael Durant the helicopter pilot also wrote a book In the Company of Heroes.

Man, who is talking to Maj. Garrison (Sam Shepherd) is the son of late former President of United States, Gerald R. Ford. His name is Steven Ford. His dad, Gerald Ford served in the Navy. Speaking of US Navy, they are building next generation of Supercarriers named Gerald R Ford Class to replace older Nimitz Class Carriers with 1st named USS Gerald R Ford or "Ford" "Ford" went in active service in March of this year. Steven's character in this movie is Cribbs. His final role was in 2007's Transformers.

I was part of the Marines that arrived in Somalia about 10 days after the Blackhawk Down battle. I was with 1st Battalion, 9th Marines (We were 1 unit of the 13th MEU) and we arrived in October of 1993 and left in February 1994. Our infantry company secured many positions and we worked alongside the Rangers. Some of our platoons used to get mortared every night. I was with a Helo Assault company and I still remember the night sky being lit up with tracer fire as they would hear our helicopters flying above. The heat was miserable and the smell of death was all around. Crazy times....

In that poll you got Flags of our fathers, switch that to 'Letters from Iwo Jima', highly recommended WW2 movie!

Ridley Scott...that man got a few hidden gems with is mega productions and cult classics....He goes in any genre, it's amazing ! Other great movie you might like, Kingdom of Heaven the director's cut, All the money in the world and The Martian, just amazing !

This is my favorite movie of all time. I literally, and I mean literally, have watched this movie close to 200 times.

The soldier who died from the RPG missile was named Richard Wayne Kowalewski Jr., his friends called him "Alphabet" .. at the time of his death he was 20 years old.

"Will that's my safety sir!" That is of the most quoted scenes in any military movie ever.

Lone Survivor is a good one to check out.

My dad showed me this movie when I was a little kid. Was and still is my favorite war movie👌🏾

I used to work with Desert Storm vet, he said this movie is the best depiction of the chaos of real combat.

The book this is based on is well worth reading and so is In the Company of Heroes by Michael Durant, the pilot that was shot down and taken hostage (it's about that event, actually).

Fun fact: this was the same director as alien, gladiator and blade runner.

This is one of those movies that gets so much right about serving in the military.

I could hear those bells ringing.