Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
by Peter Bate
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Actor: Annette Kelly, Elie Lison, Roger May, Steve Driesen, Tshilombo ImhotepDirector: Peter Bate
Brand: FACETS VIDEO
Producer: Nick Fraser
Cinematographer: Renaat Lambeets
Writer: Peter Bate
Editor: Hugh Williams
Producer: Bill Binnemans
Producer: Iikka Vehkalahti
Producer: Olaf Grunert
Producer: Paul Pauweis
Producer: Philippe Van Meerbeeck
Producer: Tim Altmann
Producer: Wessel van der Hammen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Dutch (Original Language); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Art Mattan
Movie Reviews of Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Movie Review: very interesting, very well done
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary ranks up there with some of the very best and most interesting that I have ever watched. It goes into a good deal of depth on the history and how Leopold exploited the country and set it up for further failure in the future. It was very interesting and kept me glued to the tube. I own somewhere near 100 documentaries and this is one of the best I've seen.
(Don't let the goofy cartoon intro stuff fool you)
Summary of Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
CONGO: WHITE KING, RED RUBBER, BLACK DEATH 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. Families were held as hostages, starving to death if the men failed to produce enough wild rubber. Children's hands were chopped off as punishment for late deliveries. The Belgian government has denounced this documentary as a "tendentious diatribe" for depicting King Leopold II as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo. Yet, it is agreed today that the first Human Rights movement was spurred by what happened in the Congo. .Art House & International DVD Video
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