Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

Release date : 2003-01-01

Production country :

Belgium,

United Kingdom

Production company :

YLE,

DR,

ZDF/Arte,

Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (IKON),

History Television,

BBC,

RTBF,

Periscope Productions,

VRT,

SBS

Status : Released

Durasi : 84 Min.

Popularity : 0.558

7.2

Total Vote : 6

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.