Blood Diamond was directed by Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai, Legends of the Fall), a staunchly mainstream filmmaker who seems most at ease with the language of epic storytelling.

CAFUNFO, Angola—On paper, Angola is a poster child for the global effort to keep "blood diamonds" out of the world's jewelry stores. International pressure helped end a vicious civil war a ...

For diamond merchants it's the peak season for sales, CBS News correspondent Thalia Assuras reports. but Hollywood may dull the gleam with the movie "Blood Diamond." Leonardo DiCaprio plays a ...

“Civil war” may be a matter of semantics at the moment, but Edward Zwick’s gripping African thriller, “Blood Diamond,” is upfront about using it to describe the situation in Sierra Leone ...

Early in “Blood Diamond,” it becomes ethically crucial that the action-soaked tale about Africa’s illicit and brutal diamond trade end with at least one outcome guaranteed. Edward Zwick’s ...

Blood Diamond is fiction, but its setting is recent (and tragic) history. The year is 1999, and civil war is raging in the West African country of Sierra Leone.

The new Leonardo DiCaprio movie Blood Diamond, set in 1990's Sierra Leone, has raised awareness about so-called "conflict diamonds" -- diamonds mined in war zones and sold to finance insurgent ...

Set atop the backdrop of civil war in 1990s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond tells two very different, but equally gripping, stories: the first, an expose on the immoral and deadly conflict diamond ...

Blood Diamond (opening December 8 throughout San Diego), a story about the illegal diamond trade in Africa. Edward Zwick's Blood Diamond. Edward Zwick, a white American filmmaker, has told 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 ...

Perhaps Blood Diamond is most disappointing because it has the potential to explore events and aspects of the Sierra Leone civil war, but just when the film seems to transcend its own melodrama, there ...

Oscar consideration for “Blood Diamond” should be buoyed by last year’s pick, “Crash,” which signaled the Academy’s return to message films with a strong social conscience.