Yep, it is a really good movie, 1999 Sierra Leone.

Rating: Null/10 (30 April 2007)

It was 1999 and civil war was raging in the small western Africa country of Sierra Leone. One of the ways to make money to buy weapons was smuggling raw diamonds to a different country where they were sold as their own production.
Leonardo DiCaprio is South African Danny Archer who has no apparent concern for others and is one of those in the business. We see him making a deal with a rebel, then getting caught trying to smuggle diamonds stitched into a cut on the back of a sheep, for which he ended up in jail. There he became aware of Djimon Hounsou as Solomon Vandy, a native who had been taken into diamond mining slavery, and who it was thought had hidden a big, pink diamond somewhere near the mine.
Jennifer Connelly is Maddy Bowen, an American reporter who goes into various countries looking for stories. In Sierra Leone, she is trying to find facts, names and places, to support a story on the "blood diamond" industry and its role in the continuing conflicts. She tries to bargain with Danny Archer, who she thinks can give her the information she needs.
The movie is long but never dull. It is a very well told fictional story within what was a true situation in he country.