Blood Diamond - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

• The origins of the Kimberly Process were dramatized in Ed Zwick's 2006 motion picture Blood Diamond. The film helped to publicize the controversy surrounding conflict diamonds and led to worldwide awareness of the Western African involvement in the diamond trade.
• The James Bond film Die Another Day uses conflict diamonds as a central plot point throughout the film.
• The music video for the Kanye West song "Diamonds from Sierra Leone" from the album Late Registration is about the illicit conflict diamond trade. The song samples the theme from another Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever.
• The video game Far Cry 2, set in an unnamed Central African country in the midst of civil war, uses diamonds as currency.
• The book Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney involves a refugee family smuggling blood diamonds into the United States from Africa.
• In the Nicolas Cage film Lord of War, blood diamonds are used as currency to purchase firearms.
• In 2011 Danish filmmaker Mads Brügger published the documentary Ambassadøren (aka 'The Ambassador') about the trade in diplomatic passports in order to make money with blood diamonds.
• The Hawaii Five-0 episode 'Kalele' (originally aired March 19, 2012) involved the smuggling of conflict diamonds where a Liberian national is involved.