Blood diamond

Resource Information

The work Blood diamond represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in The Ferguson Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Blood diamond

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. Pictures presents in association with Virtual Studios, a Spring Creek/Bedford Falls production in association with Initial Entertainment Group, an Edward Zwick film ; produced by Paula Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Graham King, Gillian Gorfil ; story by Charles Leavitt and C. Gaby Mitchell ; screenplay by Charles Leavitt ; directed by Edward Zwick

Contributor

• Bedford Falls Company
• Initial Entertainment Group
• Spring Creek Productions
• Virtual Studios
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Connelly, Jennifer
• DiCaprio, Leonardo
• Gorfil, Gillian
• Herskovitz, Marshall
• Hounsou, Djimon, 1964-
• King, Graham
• Leavitt, Charles
• Mistry, Jimi, 1973-
• Mitchell, C. Gaby
• Sheen, Michael
• Vosloo, Arnold
• Weinstein, Paula
• Zwick, Edward

Subject

• Adventure -- Feature
• trueAdventure films
• Adventure films
• Diamantes -- Sierra Leone -- Teatro
• Diamonds -- Sierra Leone -- Drama
• Draft -- Sierra Leone -- Drama
• Feature films
• Feature films
• Fishers -- Sierra Leone -- Drama
• Pesca -- Sierra Leone -- Teatro
• Sierra Leone -- Drama
• Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991- -- Drama
• Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991-2002 -- Drama
• Smugglers -- Sierra Leone -- Drama
• Suspense films
• Thriller -- Feature
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• War -- Feature
• trueWar films
• War films

Genre

• Adventure
• Adventure films
• trueDrama
• Feature films
• Suspense films
• Teatro
• Thriller
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• War
• War films

Language

• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: to recover a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son who was consripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Eduardo Serra ; edited by Steven Rosenblum ; music by James Newton Howard ; costume designer, Ngila Dickson ; production designer, Dan Weil ; special effects supervisor, Neil Corbould ; visual effects supervisor, Jeffrey A. Okun

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; strong violence and language

Language note

English (PCM 5.1, Dolby 5.1), dubbed French (Dolby 5.1) or dubbed Spanish (Dolby 5.1) dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

LC call number

PN1995.9.S87

LC item number

B5663 2007

PerformerNote

Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Jimi Mistry, Michael Sheen, Arnold Vosloo

Runtime

143

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action