2003DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie1h 24m

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

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.

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StatusReleased
Original Languageen

Keywords

colonialism

Production

YLE
YLE
DR
DR
ZDF/Arte
ZDF/Arte
BBC
BBC
RTBF
RTBF