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  1. A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond. A story following Archer, a man tortured by his roots. With a strong survival instinct, he has made himself a key player in the business of conflict diamonds. Political unrest is rampant in Sierra Leone as people fight tooth for tooth.

  2. Blood Diamond: Directed by Edward Zwick. With Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers. A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.

    • (592K)
    • Adventure, Drama, Thriller
    • Edward Zwick
    • 2006-12-08
    • Blood Diamond is a 2006 American political war thriller film directed by Edward Zwick.
    • The movie explores the issues surrounding diamond mining in war-torn Sierra Leone during the late 1990s.
    • Leonardo DiCaprio stars as Danny Archer, a mercenary diamond smuggler who forms an unlikely alliance with Solomon Vandy, played by Djimon Hounsou, a fisherman who is searching for his lost son and a rare pink diamond.
    • The story is set against the backdrop of the Sierra Leone Civil War and highlights the unethical trade of conflict diamonds.
  3. A fisherman, a smuggler, and a syndicate of businessmen match wits over the possession of a priceless diamond.

    • 3 min
    • 92.8K
    • kinobscura
  4. By Maria Emmanoelides. The film Blood Diamond spotlights the illicit diamond market that fueled the Sierra Leone civil war, showing the inner workings of the trade and its effects on the country. The plot follows a diamond smuggler and an enslaved fisherman through their journey to find a rare diamond in hopes of escape and family reunification.

  5. The main plot focuses on the adventures of Danny Archer, a diamond smuggler, and Solomon Vandy, an African fisherman who was enslaved to work in the diamond field. Vandy’s son was captured by Captain Poison, the leader of RUF forces so that Solomon. In the course of the war, the diamonds serve to provide the army with a weapon.

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  7. Blood Diamond. Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990’s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) – an ex mercenary from Zimbabwe – and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) – a Mende fisherman. Both men are African, but their histories as different as any can be, until their fates become ...