As a means to drive home its chief argument – that the 14-carat rock on your fiancée’s ring finger might be little more than a blood-drenched byproduct of an African civil war – the stringent ...

Edward Zwick is one of the few Hollywood directors of the past two decades whose name has come to stand not just for quality but for a specific kind of movie: an ambitious, issue-oriented, historical ...

What a fuss a number can make -- one little number. And here it is: Fewer than 1 percent of diamonds on the market today are "conflict diamonds." The number seems surprising, considering all the ...

For centuries, diamonds have held a special place in human culture. Rulers adorned themselves with them, lovers exchanged them as symbols of commitment, and collectors placed them at high prices for ...

In 2019, the Safdie Brothers released an instant classic that starts far from the chaotic New York where the movie spends most of its time. It begins in Ethiopia, where miners find a mesmerizing and ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

Blood diamonds, also known as conflict diamonds, are diamonds mined in areas controlled by armed groups and sold to fund wars. These groups use the money to buy weapons, support fighters and continue ...