Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
by Peter Bate
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Actor: Annette Kelly, Elie Lison, Roger May, Steve Driesen, Tshilombo ImhotepDirector: Peter Bate
Brand: FACETS VIDEO
Producer: Nick Fraser
Cinematographer: Renaat Lambeets
Writer: Peter Bate
Editor: Hugh Williams
Producer: Bill Binnemans
Producer: Iikka Vehkalahti
Producer: Olaf Grunert
Producer: Paul Pauweis
Producer: Philippe Van Meerbeeck
Producer: Tim Altmann
Producer: Wessel van der Hammen
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Dutch (Original Language); English (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-28
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Art Mattan
DVD Reviews of Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
DVD Review: very interesting, very well done
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary ranks up there with some of the very best and most interesting that I have ever watched. It goes into a good deal of depth on the history and how Leopold exploited the country and set it up for further failure in the future. It was very interesting and kept me glued to the tube. I own somewhere near 100 documentaries and this is one of the best I've seen.
(Don't let the goofy cartoon intro stuff fool you)
DVD Review: THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT ABOUT KING LEOPOLD II AND THE FRANCO-BELGIANS ATROCITIES COMMITED IN THE CONGO!! A MUST SEE!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
A MUST SEE FOR MEMBERS OF THE DIASPORA!!! LET US NOT FORGET THAT OURS SISTERS AND BROTHERS WHO MISSED THE BOAT WERE NOT LIVING IN FREEDOM AND PARADISE AS THOSE WHO CAUGHT THE BOAT WERE JUST AS EQUALLY ENSLAVED!!!!DVD Review: A dishonest film that betrays its moral purpose
Summary: 1 Stars
I watched this film one evening after spending the day reading Hochschild's "King Leopold's Ghost." I was reading quite slowly and underlining in order to absorb the information since I am planning a trip up the Congo river. As I watched the film I recognized one quoted passage after another (archival quotes) which I had read in Hochschild only a few hours before. The numbers of quotes that I recognized were quite extraordinary. I waited for the credits fully expecting to see Hochschild's name, but it was not there! Someone wanted me and you and everyone else to think that they had studied the archives and struggled to made judicious choices of quoted materials (a gigantic job). Someone didn't want me or anyone else to know that Hochschild had done their homework for them.
It is particularly galling, in a film that purports to have a moral core, to find that the team making the film stole Hochschild's work from him and misled their audience in the credits. And in a film about Leopold's theivery, misuse and misrule of the Congo, no less! What would Joseph Conrad have said!!!!
DVD Review: The two faces of Leopold II of Belgium
Summary: 5 Stars
This documentary is very interesting and also revolting in the sense that it exposes the 2 sides( good and evil) of a European sovereign, King Leopold II of Belgium. The good side which many people may find hard to accept is that he did raise the level of an unknown primitive Congo into an exotic Belgian colonial state with its remarkable geography and wildlife which was evidently an explorer's dream. But perhaps his most significant deed was his exploitation of its natural resources to contribute fuel to the ongoing outside world's Industrial Revolution.With all due respect to his Majesty,he could be dubbed a benefactor by some,although with a Jekyl and Hyde personality. And at what cost to the Congo and its indigenous inhabitants? Revolting!...which exposes his bad side that greatly overshadows the good.Wanton slavery,burning and devastation of villages,torture,murder of human beings, mutilation and amputation of limbs! Could it be that this revolting practice of amputation was started by Leopold II in a gigantic scale in the Congo so that the idea was passed on to the rest of Africa to be implemented in its subsequent post colonial civil wars? As one reviewer from Lagos,Nigeria puts it plainly: This historical documentary about the Congo's exploitation may serve as an aid to understand modern Africa by "looking at each country and exposing the roots of its pains." I highly recommend watching and studying this interesting DVD. DVD Review: Interesting Subject, Pedestrian Documentary
Summary: 4 Stars
I would have hoped for a more emotionally moving and interesting documentary but appreciate a documentary was made. I want to learn more about the Congo, Belgium and King Leopold II and think I might find some more interesting materials. This film was a good start. It is just too much like a British version of Dateline NBC or 20/20. The style the documentary was created in is similar to Kurt and Cortney if you have seen that movie.
Description of Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death
CONGO: WHITE KING, RED RUBBER, BLACK DEATH 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. Families were held as hostages, starving to death if the men failed to produce enough wild rubber. Children's hands were chopped off as punishment for late deliveries. The Belgian government has denounced this documentary as a "tendentious diatribe" for depicting King Leopold II as the moral forebear of Adolf Hitler, responsible for the death of 10 million people in his rapacious exploitation of the Congo. Yet, it is agreed today that the first Human Rights movement was spurred by what happened in the Congo. .General DVDs
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