Title Blood Diamond Overview An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide. Tagline It will cost you everything. Genres Drama, Thriller, Action Keywords rebel, journalist, journalism, loss of family, slavery, mercenary, diamond mine, sierra leone, bootlegger, fisherman, special unit, smuggling, genocide in rwanda, oppression Production Companies Bedford Falls Productions, Lonely Film Productions GmbH & Co. KG., Virtual Studios, Spring Creek Productions, Warner Bros., Initial Entertainment Group IEG , Liberty Pictures Production Countries Germany, United States of America Spoken Languages Afrikaans, English Original Language en Runtime minutes 143 Release Year 2006
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 171 million USD