''T.I.A.," say only three characters in only two scenes in Blood Diamond, but the phrase echoes throughout the entire film. It stands for "This Is Africa," and it conveys a strange brand of fatalism — ...

For diamond merchants it's the peak season for sales, CBS News correspondent Thalia Assuras reports. but Hollywood may dull the gleam with the movie "Blood Diamond." Leonardo DiCaprio plays a smuggler ...

It's no secret that conditions are bad in Africa. This is the one idea that has been steadily conveyed to the public for years. There's never a shortage of movies that have to do with the plight of ...

In the ambitious, sweeping and sometimes moving Blood Diamond, Edward Zwick aims to fuse recent history with mass-scale entertainment. That’s nothing new for Hollywood, and the story of the wages of ...

Perception is everything in the diamond industry. From the retailers who often know much more than the buyer, to its place in a modern fairy tale wedding, to the effects of a Hollywood film, the ...

Edward Zwick’s “Blood Diamond” is a message movie, loosely wrapped in action-thriller paper, and consequently it’s never difficult to see where it’s going. Set in 1999 Sierra Leone, it’s the story of ...

“Civil war” may be a matter of semantics at the moment, but Edward Zwick’s gripping African thriller, “Blood Diamond,” is upfront about using it to describe the situation in Sierra Leone in the late ...

Set against the backdrop of civil war and chaos in 1990s Sierra Leone, Blood Diamond is the story of Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a South African mercenary, and Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a ...

They say you can’t get blood from a stone, but the team behind the new film, Blood Diamond would beg to differ. Set in Sierra Leone in the 1999, the film follows a mercenary (Leonardo DiCaprio), a ...