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.

Director: Edward Zwick

Genres: Drama Action Adventure Thriller Crime

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio Djimon Hounsou Jennifer Connelly Kagiso Kuypers Arnold Vosloo Antony Coleman Benu Mabhena Anointing Lukola David Harewood Basil Wallace Jimi Mistry Michael Sheen Marius Weyers Stephen Collins Ntare Mwine

Writers: Charles Leavitt

Producers: Gillian Gorfil Marshall Herskovitz Graham King Darrell Roodt Paula Weinstein Edward Zwick