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