Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

• Documentary
• History
• TV Movie

• 84 Mins
• 2003
• en

• star7.2/ 10

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.