Movie

Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death

Released: January 1, 2003 (2003)

Runtime: 84 minutes

Genres: Documentary, History, TV Movie

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.