Blood Diamond is a Hollywood thriller, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, about the illegal gem trade. It doesn’t open for another couple of months, but the diamond industry has already launched a ...

Having already roiled the diamond industry, "Blood Diamond" arrives with the best of intentions, harrowing sequences but ultimately mixed results. Leonardo DiCaprio and Djimon Hounsou deliver powerful ...

In the ambitious, sweeping and sometimes moving Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick aims to fuse recent history with mass-scale entertainment. That’s nothing new for Hollywood, and the story of the wages of ...

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They say a diamond is forever. From today, and for now, that also includes blood diamonds. On Monday the respected rights and commerce watchdog Global Witness announced it was quitting the ...

Until he got to Africa, Leonardo DiCaprio admits, his exposure to the conflicts surrounding diamond mining was limited. “I was like anybody else, I’d heard whispers, but it wasn’t until I got to ...

“T.I.A.,” mutters Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), slouched across a bar in Sierra Leone. It is 1999. As the West obsesses over Clinton’s blow job, the West African nation is mired in a savage civil ...