Surviving Black Hawk Down (Season 1)

Surviving Black Hawk Down (2025) is a British documentary series you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Jack McInnes and Sam Hobkinson. On the night of 3–4 October 1993, a US Ranger operation in Mogadishu went sideways when three UH-60 helicopters were downed — what was planned as an hour-long snatch mission stretched into eighteen hours of urban combat.

For the first time, American veterans and Somali fighters sit in the same documentary and recount the same battle from opposite ends of the street. No reenactments, no narrator connecting the dots — just testimony, laid piece by piece until the full shape of that night comes into focus. Ridley Scott's 2001 film brought the battle to mainstream audiences; this series gives the floor back to the people who were actually there.

Stream Surviving Black Hawk Down (2025) on iFILM — a documentary that closes the distance between the Hollywood version and what the survivors carry.