His new film, "Blood Diamond," is very much in this tradition. It's an adventure set in the 1999 Sierra Leone civil war that's out to educate its audience about two specific aspects of the ...

The movie dramatizes how rebels in Sierra Leone relied on the illegal diamond trade to fund their war, a conflict that uprooted millions of people, among them a Mende fisherman named Solomon ...

Leonardo DiCaprio's One Battle After Another will be the star's first theatrical release in years, but will it end his ...

Earnest, engaged, compassionate and way too long at 150 minutes, Blood Diamond is probably not the kind of movie most of us feel like watching during the holidays but probably should, for our own ...

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 ...

blood diamond "Blood Diamond" turns out to be a movie gem It's no secret that conditions are bad in Africa. This is the one idea that has been steadily conveyed to the public for years. There's ...

“Blood Diamond” is a visually sumptuous, bullet-train-paced thriller with a really provocative theme. Director Edward Zwick and company give it just the kind of explosive elements it ne… ...

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 ...

In Blood Diamond, Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou, left), who is forced to mine diamonds, finds and secretly hides a gigantic gem that a smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio, right) wants.

This action-packed take on the issue of blood diamonds is an example of social critique masquerading as cineplex fodder.

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 ...