Based on a successful comic book that began in 1941, the Blackhawks were seven flyers who banded together during WW II to fight the Nazis. After the war, they continued to fight evil where ever they find it. In this movie, they are battling a group of spies and saboteurs bent on destroying democracy. The Blackhawks foil a succession of plots, with a cliff hanger ending in each episode.

The Man From Blackhawk is a Western television series starring Robert Rockwell that aired on the ABC television network from October 9, 1959, until September 9, 1960. The series was created by Academy Award winning screenwriter Stirling Silliphant.

史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格将与DC合作拍摄超级英雄电影，这是斯导第一次涉足超英题材影片。 主角是DC漫画人物“黑鹰”，黑鹰原本属于质量漫画旗下人物，1956年被DC漫画收购，成为了DC漫画的超级英雄角色。在新52之前，黑鹰本名雅诺什·普罗哈斯卡（Janos Prohaska），是黑鹰小队的领导者，常胜七勇士以及全明星中队成员。新52的黑影本名安德鲁·林肯（Andrew Lincoln），是黑鹰项目成员。

Real footage is shown to prove that the film Black Hawk Down (2001) was very true to the real events that occured in Mogadishu in 1993. Actual militia and US rangers are interviewed to tell us the different sides of the conflict when Somalia was under the power of Aidid.