Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death 2004

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Documentary History

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.

Release Date 2004-02-24
Runtime 1h 24m
Directors Renaat Lambeets, Peter Bate
Producers Wessel van der Hammen, Nick Fraser, Paul Pauwels, Philippe Van Meerbeeck, Bill Binnemans, Olaf Grunert, Iikka Vehkalahti
Writer Peter Bate