Edward Zwick · 2006 · survival

Edward Zwick's 2006 film. During Sierra Leone's civil war, the fisherman Solomon Vandy is forced to work the rebel diamond fields, where he hides a huge pink diamond; the smuggler Danny Archer wants it to buy his way off the continent. Together with a journalist they trek across a war-torn country - through rebel territory and refugee columns - to the buried stone and a chance at freedom.

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   Freetown

   The Sierra Leonean capital, torn between government and RUF rebels, where the smuggler Danny Archer schemes and the imprisoned fisherman Solomon Vandy is separated from his family.

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   The diamond fields

   The rebel-controlled mining pits on the river where Vandy was forced to labor and buried an enormous pink diamond - the stone Archer needs and the family Vandy must find.

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   Kono airstrip

   The interior country the pair cross through militia checkpoints and battle to reach the buried diamond, and the airstrip that offers a last, costly route out of the war.