• Jan 01, 2003
  • 84 min
  • Full-HD

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (2003)

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.

Country
Belgium United Kingdom
Companies
YLE DR ZDF/Arte Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (IKON) History Television BBC RTBF Periscope Productions VRT SBS

Nick Fraser

Narrator (voice)

Elie Lison

Roger May

Steve Driesen

Tshilombo Imhotep

Annette Kelly

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