02417cgm a2200373 i 4500 2550368407 TxAuBib 20240906120000.0 r 160825|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 1187216 Kanopy (OCoLC)1193587445 VDU eng VDU TxAuBib rda Congo: White King, Red Rubber, Black Death [Kanopy]. ArtMattan Films, 2004. [San Francisco, California, USA : Kanopy Streaming, 2016. 1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound. tdi rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier In Process Record. Title from title frames. Film. Originally produced by ArtMattan Films in 2004. This true, astonishing story of what King Leopold II did in the Congo was forgotten for over 50 years. “ 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.. “Nick Fraser's commanding narration lends real punch to Bate's tough-minded text [in this] stunning indictment of Belgium's brutal colonization of the Congo in the late 19th century.” Robert Koehler, Variety. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Documentary-style films. African Studies. African Studies. Documentary films. ArtMattan Films (Firm). Kanopy (Firm). https://USERNAME.kanopy.com/node/187217 https://www.kanopy.com/node/187217/external-image