Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death (movie)
- User score: 7.2
- Production country: Belgium, United Kingdom
- Producer: Peter Bate
- Production companies: YLE, DR, ZDF/Arte, Interkerkelijke Omroep Nederland (IKON), History Television, BBC, RTBF, Periscope Productions, VRT, SBS
- Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Release date: 1/1/2003
- Run time: 84 min.
Movie description
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.
