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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FACETS HOME VIDEO
EAN: 0736899093624
Feature: 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 denou
Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Art Mattan
Languages: DutchOriginal LanguageEnglishOriginal LanguageFrenchOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Art Mattan
MPN: DV88520
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Art Mattan
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Running Time: 84 minutes
Studio: Art Mattan
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
Features:- 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 denou
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Product Description:
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. "[A] stunning indictment" (Variety).System Requirements:Running Time 84 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 736899093624 Manufacturer No: DV88520
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Rating:  -
I lasted 15 minutes before I had to turn it off. I was previewing this DVD for use in my senior class. They had just finished Achebe's Things Fall Apart and were soon beginning Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I thought this video would help me better understand the post colonialist viewpoint concerning the European presence in 19th and 20th century Africa.
Having read Heart of Darkness many times over the past 10 years, I am aware of the famous scene along the river -- Congolese of ... Read More
Rating:  -
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)
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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!!!!
Rating:  -
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, ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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