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Blood Diamond, 2006
About conflict diamonds, DiCaprio said in an interview with TIME, "I never understood the full story until I got this script and started doing research." "I was pretty horrified about what went on in Sierra Leone in the late 1990s and how diamonds funded these warlords. Amnesty International projected around four million people lost their lives as a result of these diamond sales," he said.

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