Are the events in the movie "blood diamond"based on true facts?

Answer 1

Yes. From the website below:

"Leonardo DiCaprio has gone from the little kid on Growing Pains to one of the biggest world-wide stars - and made headlines doing it.

His latest film has him fighting off rebels in Africa in order to get one of the largest raw diamonds. Blood Diamond is based on the true events of the mid-1990’s, where rebel troops took over small villages and forced the people to search for the precious stones.

Leo plays an independent drug smuggler, who meets up with Djimon Hounsou to find it; the only catch is Djimon is the only person who knows where it is because he’s the one who hid it.

Because Blood Diamond is based on actual occurrences, Leo did a lot of personal research to get ready for the role. “I had heard whispers of it, but until I got there and until I started to do the research I didn’t really quite understand the immense impact, certainly on Sierra Leone and other places in Africa. I had heard the Kanye West song, for example, and bits of it in conversation; but it wasn’t until I really got to Africa where I heard the firsthand accounts and started to read the books and learn about it that I really learned what was really going on, what really had happened.”

Director Ed Zwick had to also study the time period to know what was true and what was false. “I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student. And I had known a bit of what had happened there, but the access that one gains from experts, to people who have devoted their lives and put their lives at risk to learn these things, is such a remarkable opportunity and it became an odyssey to me. I immersed myself in this field. I went, met victims and victimizers, smugglers, mercenaries, traders and politicians. And it was just the most incredible opportunity to delve deeply into a place and what one hopes is that you honor that. You honor those people. That you do well by those who know much more than you. I was very, very lucky that I encountered a man named Sorious Samura who is a journalist from Sierra Leone who had made the documentary Cry Freetown, which was the award-winning documentary; in fact, he became British journalist of the year and won a Peabody prize for it. He and I connected through the most wonderful serendipity and he became my consultant on the film. So, I was helped by so many people throughout the process and that was one of the treats of it.”

Answer 2

Most movies, stories and books have some truth in them... some of them exaggerate and other romanticise's it a little to make it juicy. But it is a fact that in diamond countries in Africa more than 50% of the diamonds dissappear and everything which stands in the way too.

Answer 3

The movie isnt based on any one true event, but what they show happening with the children and all the violence is very much true. Africa is a mess with many things they have many resources that the rest of the world wants and the people who control it have the power.

Answer 4

the truth is worse than the movie.