With Five Academy Award Nominations, Blood Diamond is an action-packed Hollywood film starring Leonardo Di Caprio. The film brought the issue of blood diamonds to a much wider audience across the world. Conflict diamonds are diamonds that are used to fuel violent conflict and human rights abuses. Diamonds have funded brutal wars in Angola, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Democratic Republic of Congo and Côte d’Ivoire that have resulted in the death and displacement of millions of people.