Blood Diamond
2006 · 143 min
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
Director: Edward Zwick
Writers: Charles Leavitt, C. Gaby Mitchell
Cinematographer: Eduardo Serra
Editor: Steven Rosenblum
Composers: James Newton Howard, Djivan Gasparyan
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers, Arnold Vosloo