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Black Hawk Down In the beginning of this movie, Black Hawk Down¸ United States Marines and Army Rangers are sent into a marketplace in Mogadishu, Somalia, on a mission that was suppose to take thirty minutes. They were to abduct two lieutenants of a Somalia Warlord. But after some difficulties and not being able to accomplish what they were suppose to before being spotted by Somali militia, they were there for a total of fifteen hours involved in the longest battle involving American troops since the Vietnam War. It took them that long to just get to the safe zone controlled by U. N. forces. The mission most definitely turned into a failure as nineteen American soldiers were dead and many more wounded as they were surrounded by thousands of Somali militia during the mission. The main actors in the film are Sam Shepard, Tom Sizemore, Ewan McGregor, Orlando Bloom, and Josh Hartn