Season 1 – Surviving Black Hawk Down

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Kyle B @Boggs Dec 8 Villainized American's while glorifying Terror. Ignored most of the details. If you want a real account of the battle please look into Shawn Ryan show. There is hours of real information without being cut into making the Americans look like they were in the wrong. See more Gavan L @Bigdawg12 Dec 7 Two of the main characters in the documentary said they twisted their words and not to watch it. See more Lathan W Oct 18 This is some of the best tv I’ve ever seen in my life. I don’t think anything else I, a Marine Corps infantry vet, have seen captures the sense of what it must have felt like to have been on the other side of American aggression. Harrowing, intense, I lived the pacing, and I’m shocked they were able to compile all these interviews with people who were actually there See more Phil B. @IveSceneIt Aug 25 The best documentary I’ve seen in a very long time. See more Coni V @conipsv Jun 25 Engaging and somewhat rich documentary with some beautiful shots and direction. Unfortunately, it gets bogged down in an over the top effort to provoke emotions and be artistic for its own sake. It's greater goal is to provoke reflection on the humanity involved and eroded in war (with many close shots of face, intense lightning, plenty of interviewees) but in this effort it forgot to dive down into many of the most interesting elements of the story and easily glosses over its critical elements. Yet another Netflix documentary with incredible access to eye-witnesses, high quality production, fantastic insight that you may not read about, but executed in a glossed over/cookie cutter way to provoke easy emotion, easy takeaways, and satisfy enough of the audience's short attentions spans. See more Connor P Jun 1 The pacing is a slog getting bogged down in uneccessary detail at times while spending no time to dig into the important claims made by those being interviewed or explaining the important context of the conflict. The conflict is framed in terms of US vs Somalis and the civil war is left ambiguous. Claims are made that Americans shot women and children intentionally but that is not really explored despite being very important. The show seems uninterested in probing deeper on important questions but is fine wasting time on meandering scene setting that eats up most of the run time. Regardless of the viewpoint you go into the documentary with, it's unlikely you'll come away thinking anything different about the conflict because you're unlikely to learn anything meaningful. See more Read all reviews

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