Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
Alternate/Foreign Title: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death [Short title]
DVD Released (Y/M/D): 2006-02-28
Genre: Foreign
Sub-genre: Documentary
Director: Peter Bate
Stars: Elie Lison, Roger May, Steve Driesen, Imotep Tshilombo, Annette Kelly
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Synopsis: Peter Bate's controversial documentary describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned the Congo into his private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under Leopold's control the Congo became a gulag labor camp of shocking brutality with families held hostage, workers starved to death, and children's hands chopped off as punishment for late deliveries. While the Belgian government has denounced Bate's film as a "tendentious diatribe" it is widely agreed today that the first Human Rights movement was spurred by what happened in the African nation.
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