Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
2003· 1h 24m
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
Directed by Peter Bate
7.4/ 10
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Overview
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.
