Frank Carlson Library

With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets...

To escape the dreadful conditions of a Union prison camp, a young Confederate becomes a Galvanized Yankee--a member of the United States Volunteer regiments of Southern prisoners formed to protect settlers from American Indians on the western frontier. Almost 6,000 Southerners enlisted in six regiments of Galvanized Yankees.