Movies That Most Accurately Depict the Brutality of War

Black Hawk Down

Ridley Scott isn’t interested in softening corners. In works like “Alien,” “Blade Runner” and “Gladiator,” he took well-trod genres and let the fangs out, producing works that shock with their frank depictions of unhappy violence. In “Black Hawk Down,” Scott applied the same trick to the war movie, imbuing his examination of the 1993 battle of Mogadishu with jarring, upsetting imagery and human catastrophe.