Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (2004)

ALL 02/24/2004 (en) Documentary, History 84 Min
  • Release
    02/24/2004
  • Production
    YLE, DR, SBS, ZDF/Arte, Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (IKON), HISTORY TELEVISION, BBC, RTBF, Periscope Productions, VRT
  • Rotten tomato
    72%
  • Original title
    Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

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.

  1. Peter Bate

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Paul Pauwels

    Producer



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Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (2004) 84 Min

ALL 02/24/2004 (en)
Documentary, History
  • Release 02/24/2004
  • Production
    YLE, DR, SBS, ZDF/Arte, Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (IKON), HISTORY TELEVISION, BBC, RTBF, Periscope Productions, VRT
  • Original title Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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.

  1. Peter Bate

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Paul Pauwels

    Producer