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 ...

Blood Diamonds is a made-for-TV documentary series, originally broadcast on the History Channel, that looks into the trade of diamonds which fund rebellions and wars in many African nations. The ...

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 ...

Edward Zwick is one of the few Hollywood directors of the past two decades whose name has come to stand not just for quality but for a specific kind of movie: an ambitious, issue-oriented, historical ...

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 ...

For everyone who's still figuring it out.

Many of the conversations surrounding the film Blood Diamond have been fraught. The film centers a particularly violent conflict that many outside of Sierra Leone are unfamiliar with, it posits a ...