Blood diamond /
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: to recover a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son who was consripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel...
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Format: | Video Blu-ray Disc |
Language: | English French Spanish |
Edition: | [Blu-ray version]. |
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Summary: | An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: to recover a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son who was consripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside. |
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Item Description: | Originally released as a motion picture in 2006. Special features: Commentary with director Edward Zwick; "Focus points" featurettes and production diaries; "Blood on the stone:" follow a diamond's path from the ground to the store; "Becoming Archer:" profiling Leonardo DiCaprio; "Journalism on the front line:" Jennifer Connelly on women journalists at war; "Inside the siege of Freetown:" Edward Zwick on one of the movie's pivotal sequences; music video "Shine on" by Nas; theatrical trailer. Videorecording. |
Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Format: | Blu-ray; widescreen (2.40:1) presentation; PCM 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, BD-50, 1080p High Definition. Special features only: Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, 480i or 480p Standard Definition; requires Blu-ray player. |
Audience: | MPAA rating: R; strong violence and language. |
Production Credits: | Director of photography, Eduardo Serra ; edited by Steven Rosenblum ; music by James Newton Howard ; costume designer, Ngila Dickson ; production designer, Dan Weil ; special effects supervisor, Neil Corbould ; visual effects supervisor, Jeffrey A. Okun. |
ISBN: | 1419845713 9781419845710 |