Film: 'Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death' - Watch Here

Director: Peter Bate

Documentary, 2003, 90 Min.

Time: October 16th - 31st

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CONGO: WHITE KING, RED RUBBER, BLACK DEATH offers a shocking account of Belgian colonial rule, detailing the brutal, gulag-like conditions that King Leopold II imposed on the Congolese people to harvest the country’s abundant supply of rubber. The Belgian government has denounced this film as a “tendentious diatribe” for depicting King Leopold II as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people -- but the transgressions are undeniable, and their documentation launched the modern Human Rights movement. Nearly 30 years after its initial release, Peter Bate’s film endures as one of the most informative and moving chronicles of Congo under colonial rule.