Actor Caruso Kuypers

Blood Diamond (2006) is a political action thriller film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, set in Sierra Leone during the late 1990s civil war. The country is ravaged, with the Revolutionary United Front terrorizing locals and forcing them to mine diamonds to fund their war efforts. Among those enslaved is Solomon Vandy, a Mende fisherman from Shenge who is torn from his family and forced to work under the brutal Captain Poison. One day, while mining along a river, Vandy uncovers a large pink diamond. Poison attempts to steal it, but their operation is interrupted by government troops. Desperate to protect the ...