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One of the most intense films of recent times about the diamond mining in Sierre Leone

DiCaprio plays an unscrupulous arms dealer and diamond collector who crosses paths with a man torn from his family by rebel groups as they swept through Sierra Leone during the country’s bloody civil war.

The name of the film comes from the diamonds sold by warlords to western diamond companies to finance war. These warlords routinely force children to fight for them, capturing them in one village and taking them from their parents. Force feeding them drugs so they cannot resist what they are doing. This is the terrible backdrop that DiCaprio and Hounsou play out their dangerous game to find a diamond that will take them away from this hell.

The action is non-stop and it is hard to relax through the entire film as it picks up speed until an emotional finale. Not for the faint hearted but a must see who can stomach the violence and on a topic that should not be forgotten.