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76% Critic Match
Blood Diamond
“It will cost you everything.”
7.6 / 10• 2006• 2h 23m•R• English
DramaThrillerAction
Storyline
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
Cast & Crew
Leonardo DiCaprio
Danny Archer
Lead
Djimon Hounsou
Solomon Vandy
Jennifer Connelly
Maddy Bowen
Kagiso Kuypers
Dia Vandy
Arnold Vosloo
Colonel Coetzee
Antony Coleman
Cordell Brown
Benu Mabhena
Jassie Vandy
Anointing Lukola
N'Yanda Vandy
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Edward Zwick's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Blood Diamond is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
