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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FACETS VIDEO
EAN: 0736899093624
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Art Mattan
Manufacturer: Art Mattan
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Art Mattan
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 10829
Studio: Art Mattan
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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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:  -
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
Rating: -
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
Rating: -
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.
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Awesome documentary. Goes hand in hand with the book King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild.
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