Blood Diamonds

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  • Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Run Time: 50 Minutes
  • Region: Region 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Language: English
  • Studio: History Channel
  • DVD Release Date: December 30, 2006

This moving documentary explores an unimaginable world where a rock is valued above a human life - the real story behind the Oscar® - nominated film Blood Diamond.

  • Feel the personal side of this tragedy through the wrenching saga of Usman Conteh.
  • Diplomats, diamond traders, victims and even warlords speak out in this remarkable program.
  • The United Nations did not formally condemn the blood diamond trade until December 2000.


Warlords enslave the poor to mine diamonds; the diamonds are sold to fund civil wars, genocide and terror. This simple, terrible formula -- in which slaughter begets slaughter -- describes the unconscionable trade in BLOOD DIAMONDS.

While now the subject of a major Hollywood movie and public awareness campaigns, over a decade has passed since the scourge of conflict diamonds began destroying vast swaths of African society. In this essential documentary, THE HISTORY CHANNEL® travels around the world and into the heart of darkness to shed light on this terrible trade. Learn the background and the practices of the business tally its international and personal cost, and meet the participants at every level who, willingly or not, keep the terrible wheel turning.

Most movingly, hear Usman Conteh tell his wrenching story: enslaved in the mines of Sierra Leone for months, he escaped to discover his entire family had been slaughtered. Then find hope in what the international community and a few forthright organizations are doing to disrupt the trade and end the suffering.

With forceful thoroughness and unblinking candor, BLOOD DIAMONDS relates the tragic facts of the conflict diamond trade and provides hope that, once awakened to the horror, the world will act on behalf of its victims.

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