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Blood Diamond

“It will cost you everything.”

2006

143 min

Rated R

8.0IMDB

64Metacritic

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28.7High

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Overview

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.

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DramaThrillerAction

Director

Edward Zwick

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprioDjimon HounsouJennifer ConnellyKagiso KuypersArnold VoslooAntony ColemanBenu MabhenaAnointing Lukola

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Keywords

bootleggerjournalistsmuggling (contraband)loss of loved oneafricarwandan genociderebeljournalismslaveryfishermanmercenarydiamond minesierra leonespecial unitoppression+8 more