Blood diamond

Resource Information

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

Label

Blood diamond

Statement of responsibility

Warner Bros. Pictures ; Bedford Falls Productions ; Initial Entertainment Group ; Spring Creek Productions ; Virtual Studios ; produced by Gilian Gorfil ... [and others] ; story by Charles Leavitt and C. Gaby Mitchell ; screenplay by Charles Leavitt ; directed by Edward Zwick

Contributor

• Bedford Falls Productions (Firm)
• Initial Entertainment Group
• Spring Creek Productions
• Virtual Studios
• Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- )
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Coleman, Antony
• Connelly, Jennifer
• DiCaprio, Leonardo
• Gorfil, Gillian
• Harewood, David
• Herskovitz, Marshall
• Hounsou, Djimon, 1964-
• Howard, James Newton
• King, Graham
• Kuypers, Kagiso
• Leavitt, Charles
• Lukola, Anointing
• Mbhena, Benu
• Mistry, Jimi, 1973-
• Mitchell, C. Gaby
• Roodt, Darrell
• Vosloo, Arnold
• Wallace, Basil
• Weinstein, Paula
• Zwick, Edward

Subject

• Action and adventure films
• Diamantes -- Sierra Leone -- Teatro
• Diamonds -- Sierra Leone -- Drama
• Draft -- Sierra Leone -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fishers -- Sierra Leone -- Drama
• Pesca -- Sierra Leone -- Teatro
• Sierra Leone -- Drama
• Sierra Leone -- Drama
• Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991- -- Drama
• Sierra Leone -- History -- Civil War, 1991- -- Drama
• Smugglers -- Sierra Leone -- Drama
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Videodiscs
• War films

Genre

• Action and adventure films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Teatro
• Thrillers (Motion pictures)
• Thrillers (Motion pictures, television, etc.)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• War films

Language

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

Summary

Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted 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 ; editor, Steven Rosenblum ; music, James Newton Howard ; costume designer, Ngila Dickson ; production designer, Dan Weil ; special effects supervisor, Neil Corbould ; visual effects supervisor, Jeffrey A. Okun

Dewey number

791.43/72

Intended audience

MPAA rating: R; for strong violence and language

Language note

Closed-captioned; dialogue in English (Dolby Surround 5.1), French (Dolby Surround 5.1) or Spanish (Dolby Surround 5.1) with optional subtitles in English, French or Spanish

LC call number

PN1995.9.S87

LC item number

B5663 2007

PerformerNote

Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers, Arnold Vosloo, Antony Coleman, Benu Mabhena, Anoiting Lukola, David Harewood, Basil Wallace, Jimi Mistry

Runtime

138

Target audience

adult

Technique

live action