Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

• Rated 7.4 out of 10
• Movie
• 2003
• 1h 24m
• Documentary
• History
• TV Movie

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.

Director

Peter Bate

Starring

Nick Fraser, Elie Lison, Roger May, Steve Driesen