Blood diamond

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. ; Warner Bros. Pictures ; Bedford Falls Productions ; Initial Entertainment Group ; Spring Creek Productions ; Virtual Studios ; produced by Gilian Gorfil, Marshall Herskovitz, Graham King, Darrell Roodt, Paula Weinstein, Edward Zwick ; story by Charles Leavitt and C. Gaby Mitchell ; screenplay by Charles Leavitt ; directed by Edward Zwick. ; Title from container. ; Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. ; Widescreen ; dual-layer format. ; Special features: Disc 1: Commentary with director Edward Zwick; theatrical trailer ; Disc 2: "Blood on the stone" featurette; "Becoming Archer" featurette; "Journalism on the front line" featurette; "Inside the siege of Freetown" featurette; "Shine on Em" music video by Nas. ; Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly, Kagiso Kuypers, Arnold Vosloo, Antony Coleman, Benu Mabhena, Anoiting Lukola, David Harewood, Basil Wallace, Jimi Mistry. ; DVD ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround ; region 1 encoding. ; English, French or Spanish audio track with optional English, French, or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned in English. ; 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.