Original title
Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Released
1/1/2003
Origin country
GB, US
Genre
Documentary, History, TV Movie
Production companies
DR, RTBF, BBC, YLE, ZDF/Arte, VRT, SBS, Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (IKON), History Television, Periscope Productions
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Runtime
1hr 24min
This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality. Leopold posed as the protector of Africans fleeing Arab slave-traders but, in reality, he carved out an empire based on terror to harvest rubber.
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