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Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Film / 2003

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

Directed by Peter Bate
DocumentaryHistoryTV movie

★ 7.4/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Nick FraserNarrator (voice) Elie Lison Roger May Steve Driesen Tshilombo Imhotep Annette Kelly

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