Lord of War is a 2005 action drama film written and directed by Andrew Niccol and starring Nicolas Cage. It was released in the United States on September 16, 2005, with the DVD following on January 17, 2006 and the Blu-ray Disc on July 27, 2006. Cage plays an illegal arms dealer with similarities to post-Soviet arms dealer Viktor Bout. The film was officially endorsed by the human rights group Amnesty International for highlighting the arms trafficking by the international arms industry. Yuri Orlov, a Ukrainian-American gunrunner, stands in a sea of spent shell casings in an African town. He... states that with over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation, there is one firearm for every twelve people on the planet- and ponders how to arm the other eleven. The opening credits follow, set to the Buffalo Springfield song "For What It's Worth." The life of a 7.62x39mm round is depicted as it is made in a Soviet Union weapons factory, shipped across the world to an African warzone, loaded into the magazine of an AK-47 and fired into the head of a child soldier. Through voice-over, Orlov describes the beginnings of his career in the early 1980's.
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| Release date: | September 16, 2005 |
| Directed by: | Andrew Niccol |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 122 Minutes |
| Producer: | Chris Roberts, Andreas Grosch, Nicolas Cage, Philippe Rousselet, Andrew Niccol, Norman Golightly, Teri Lin Robertson |
| Editor: | Zach Staenberg |
| Music by: | Antonio Pinto |
| Cinematography: | Amir Mokri |
| Screenplay by: | Andrew Niccol |
| Estimated budget: | $42,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |