Lord of War is a 2005 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 the antiheroic protagonist, an illegal arms dealer with similarities to Russian arms dealers Viktor Bout[LINK: http://www.ruudleeuw.com/vbout18.htm] Viktor Bout: in the Movies...[LINK: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/IK10Ag01.html] Bertil Lintner: "A necessary evil"[LINK: http://www.rightsourceonline.com/enews/issue2/one.htm] William Norman Grigg: "Permanent War, Perpetual Profiteering" and Leonid Minin. The film was officially endorsed by the human rights group Amnesty International for highlighting the trafficking of weapons by the international arms industry.