Blood Diamond

• 7.546 Drama
• 2006-12-08
• 143 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Leonardo DiCaprio (Danny Archer) Djimon Hounsou (Solomon Vandy) Jennifer Connelly (Maddy Bowen) Kagiso Kuypers (Dia Vandy) Arnold Vosloo (Colonel Coetzee) Antony Coleman (Cordell Brown) Benu Mabhena (Jassie Vandy) Anointing Lukola (N'Yanda Vandy) David Harewood (Captain Poison) Basil Wallace (Benjamin Kapanay)

Director:

Edward Zwick

Writer:

Charles Leavitt