Watch Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Type: Movie Category: DocumentaryYear: 2003Details
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.
- Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Dutch, English, French
Cast & Crew
- Nick Fraser , Elie Lison , Roger May , Steve Driesen , Tshilombo Imhotep , Annette Kelly
- Peter Bate