Blood diamond / DiCaprio, Leonardo

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.

Smuggler Danny Archer joins with fisherman Solomon Vandy in the midst of the civil war in Sierra Leone in 1999 to recover a rare and very valuable pink diamond, and rescue Vandy's young son who has been conscripted into the rebel forces.