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 ...

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 ...