For many brides-to-be, nothing symbolizes their approaching nuptials as much as a gleaming diamond solitaire. But untold numbers of African children will never slip any rings on their fingers, having ...

Edward Zwick's (Last Samurai, Courage Under Fire) latest film, Blood Diamond, explores the world of conflict diamonds, diamond smuggling, and the millions of people in Africa affected by the wars that ...

''T.I.A.," say only three characters in only two scenes in Blood Diamond, but the phrase echoes throughout the entire film. It stands for "This Is Africa," and it conveys a strange brand of fatalism — ...

On Dec. 8, 2006, Warner Bros. unveiled Edward Zwick's drama Blood Diamond in theaters, where it would go on to gross $171 million globally. The feature, starring Djimon Hounsou and Leonardo DiCaprio, ...

Edward Zwick, director of the new film, “Blood Diamond,” believes his Jewishness has played a role in his desire to make social issue movies. “Glory” was about black soldiers fighting in the Civil War ...

Jonathan Pienaar, the prolific South African star of films like Blood Diamond and series like Cape Town, has died at the age ...

When the film Blood Diamond came out in 2006, people were startled at the alleged origins of the precious stones from areas of bloody conflict and began asking whether the jewels on their fingers cost ...

They say you can’t get blood from a stone, but the team behind the new film, Blood Diamond would beg to differ. Set in Sierra Leone in the 1999, the film follows a mercenary (Leonardo DiCaprio), a ...

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 ...

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 ...