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Nothing Lasts Forever
2022
1H 26M
TV-14 D
Can you tell the real thing from a fake? What if the difference no longer matters? The DeBeers diamond cartel cornered the market on eternal love with "A diamond is forever," but now a wave of undetectable synthetic diamonds has flooded global gem markets, threatening to expose the artifice that props up a multi-billion dollar industry. Interviewing diamond merchants, DeBeers executives, auctioneers, gemologists, designers, investigators and scientists, this film explores one of the most beautiful lies ever sold.
Can you tell the real thing from a fake? What if the difference no longer matters? The DeBeers diamond cartel cornered the market on eternal love with "A diamond is forever," but now a wave of undetectable synthetic diamonds has flooded global gem markets, threatening to expose the artifice that props up a multi-billion dollar industry. Interviewing diamond merchants, DeBeers executives, auctioneers, gemologists, designers, investigators and scientists, this film explores one of the most beautiful lies ever sold.
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