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Release Date: 2007-03-20, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

This movie is an incredible watch!! The story is so sad and thought-provoking.. It really makes you think about the innocent lives that are being lost due to diamonds.This movie doesn't hold back on the truth, and reveals some heart-breaking truths about those suffering in Africa.Leonardo did an AMAZING job acting in this movie. Watch this movie. It's worth it!!!

Blood Diamonds is the gripping story of how diamond smuggling works, how the rebel war has effectively destroyed Sierra Leone and its people, and how the policies of the diamond industry—institutionalized in the 1880s by the De Beers cartel—have allowed it to happen. Award-winning journalist Greg Campbell traces the deadly trail of these diamonds, many of which are brought to the world market by fanatical enemies, and the repercussions felt far beyond the poor and war-ridden country of Sierra Leone...

Pages: 208, Hardcover, Ashgate

After assembling his own "private security" force made up of the able and disenchanted from the U.S. military and British Secret Intelligence Service, Mad Dog and his team are off to Angola to recover a missing cache of gemstones. In a land where bloody chaos is the norm, anything could derail their mission: from terrorist-linked revolutionaries to CIA treachery to the inevitable firestorm when all of them clash. With a huge payday on the line, Hertzog's men will need to prove their worth in the...

The three cuts at the end of the score and official soundtrack for Blood Diamond are worth the price of the ticket alone: the Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars "Ankala," Emmanuel Jal and Abdel Cadir Salim's "Baai ," and Bal Burea's "When Da Dawg's Come Out to Play," with Masta Kent and Bullets Rhyme. These three cuts are masterful, poignant and rousing. That said, for a change James Newton Howard's score fits the material perfectly. It seems in recent years he's become less afraid of experimenting...

Set in Sierra Leone, BLOOD DIAMOND explores the role of diamond trading in the African civil war of the late 1990s. Narrowly escaping death when his village is invaded by R.U.F. militia, farmer Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) is enslaved at a diamond mine and has his family taken from him. When he discovers an unusually large stone he buries it, knowing it may be his only tool for retrieving his family. While Vandy is imprisoned, white African diamond smuggler Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio) overhears...

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 across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside. Directed by Edward Zwick, this urgent, intensely moving adventure shapes gripping human stories and heart...

Additional Details Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Rating: Not Rated Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 50 Minutes Region: Region 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Language: English Studio: History Channel DVD Release Date: December 30, 2006 Additional 10% off for History Club Members. Join Now This moving documentary explores an unimaginable world where a rock is valued above a human life - the real story behind the Oscar® - nominated film Blood Diamond.Feel the personal side of this tragedy through the wrenching...

Hosted by investigative reporter Dominic Cunningham-Reid, this National Geographic TV special follows the international trade of illegal diamonds along a danger-filled route from Sierra Leone to Antwerp. Much of the footage is disturbingly authentic, culled via hidden cameras and surveillance photos. It is clear throughout that Cunningham-Reid and his crew are in grave danger as they article the tie-in between diamond smuggling and the financing of terrorists. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Steven Preece was a Royal Marine Commando from 1983 to 1990, serving first at entry-level and then as a lance-corporal. Amongst the Marines is Steven?s first-hand account of his years as an elite soldier, focusing directly on the excessive and often shocking lifestyle of the Marines during this time, and the impact this had on his own personality and behaviour. Preece fulfilled his childhood ambition by earning the coveted Green Beret from the Commando Training Centre at Lympstone when he was 18...

The Global Warning Series features the adventures of Lydia Barnes, a 14-year-old girl who travels with her widower missionary father to exciting locations around the world. In each story Lydia finds herself facing new challenges that introduce readers ages 8 through 12 to world issues and how God can make a difference as they develop a Christian worldview. This series of intrigue also addresses age-appropriate personal, social, and spiritual themes that encourage readers to depend on God in their...

Millions in high quality diamonds taken from Europe’s finest collections by the Nazis and stashed at the Helgsberg Villa near Berlin were confiscated by OSS operatives days before the end of WW II. Turned into OSS assets then transferred to the newly formed CIA, they were given to trusted operatives to retain secretly to finance highly sensitive intelligence operations and avoid Congressional knowledge and interference. Fifty years later, some of these diamonds began to turn up at private auctions...

Starring: Claudio Cassinelli, Martin Balsam, and Barbara Bouchet