Right alongside the ‘Rescue the POWs’ category (the most obvious example of which is Rambo: First Blood Part II), are the films about the spare-no-effort heroics to rescue lost soldiers or airmen.
NOTABLE CONTENDERS: Saving Private Ryan, Behind Enemy Lines, Bat-21, Courage Under Fire, Navy SEALs
WINNER: Black Hawk Down
Director Ridley Scott’s bracing rescue story—set in the dusty streets of Mogadishu, Somalia—gives a frantic and bracing look at the chaos and confusion of urban warfare.
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