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Blood Diamonds is a television documentary series, originally broadcast on the History Channel, that looks into the trade of diamonds which fund rebellions and wars in many African nations. The program focuses primarily on two nations: Sierra Leone and Angola. Diamonds which are traded for this purpose are known as blood diamonds.
The True Story (TV) is a documentary series shown on History in the United Kingdom and on the Smithsonian Channel ... Blood Diamonds: The True Story (First Broadcast ...
Blood diamonds (also called conflict diamonds, brown diamonds, hot diamonds, or red diamonds) are diamonds mined in a war zone and sold to finance an insurgency, an invading army's war efforts, terrorism, or a warlord's activity. The term is used to highlight the negative consequences of the diamond trade in certain areas, or to label an ...
Netflix is diving into the bond between two of the world's most iconic figures: Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. On Thursday, the streamer released the trailer for its upcoming documentary, Blood ...
Detectives Poley (William Fichtner), Frizer (Thomas Kretschmann), and Skeres (Delroy Lindo) are interrogating Ned Cruz (Antonio Banderas), a Los Angeles private investigator, who tells them that five years earlier, Russian mobster Skinny Faddeev gave $30 million in blood diamonds as an advance to Anton (Robert Maillet), a boxer, to intentionally lose a fight against his nephew.
The true-crime documentary, currently number one on the streaming service, tells the story of a woman’s abduction and police’s ensuing refusal to believe it was real.
His life story is recounted in the new film “Sight,” which depicts how the Chinese immigrant survived his homeland's harsh Cultural Revolution to become a world renowned eye surgeon in the U.S.
The Stratton Story (1949) – biographical drama film telling the true story of Monty Stratton, a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched for the Chicago White Sox from 1934 to 1938 [294] Twelve O'Clock High (1949) – war drama film based on the novel of the same name by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay Jr. , who drew deeply on their own wartime ...