Blood diamond [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Virtual Studios, a Spring Creek/Bedford Falls production in association with Initial Entertainment Group, an Edward Zwick film ; produced by Paula Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Graham King, Gillian Gorfil ; story by Charles Leavitt and C. Gaby Mitchell ; screenplay by Charles Leavitt ; directed by Edward Zwick.
Blu-ray Disc. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Jimi Mistry, Michael Sheen, Arnold Vosloo. Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Special features: Commentary with director Edward Zwick; "Focus points" featurettes and production diaries; "Blood on the stone:" follow a diamond's path from the ground to the store; "Becoming Archer:" profiling Leonardo DiCaprio; "Journalism on the front line:" Jennifer Connelly on women journalists at war; "Inside the siege of Freetown:" Edward Zwick on one of the movie's pivotal sequences; music video "Shine on" by Nas; theatrical trailer.
Summary:
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: to recover a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son who was consripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside.
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