As a means to drive home its chief argument – that the 14-carat rock on your fiancée’s ring finger might be little more than a blood-drenched byproduct of an African civil war – the stringent ...

Djimon Hounsou stars as Solomon Vandy in ’Blood Diamond’ from Warner Bros. Pictures. Good intentions are no substitute for good drama. Edward Zwick’s “Blood Diamond” has no shortage of earnest ...

For centuries, diamonds have held a special place in human culture. Rulers adorned themselves with them, lovers exchanged them as symbols of commitment, and collectors placed them at high prices for ...

What a fuss a number can make -- one little number. And here it is: Fewer than 1 percent of diamonds on the market today are "conflict diamonds." The number seems surprising, considering all the ...

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 ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Riffing on the opening of the Leonardo DiCaprio film "Blood Diamond," the State Department's own rock stars, Paul E. Simons, deputy assistant secretary for energy, sanctions and commodities, and Sue ...

“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 ...