
King Leopold's Ghost
A sobering, deeply unsettling historical documentary that confronts you with the scale of colonial atrocity and its lingering shadows.
- Directed by
- Pippa Scott, Oreet Rees
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Starring
- Don Cheadle, Ciaran Reilly, Alfre Woodard
- Tagline
- The unbelievable story of Congo's brutal history with its Belgian colonizers
- Overview
- The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy and incredibly ruthless King Leopold II of Belgium (1935-1909) turned a vast country into his private estate (1885-1908) and how he plundered the land and raped the bodies and souls of its defenceless inhabitants, causing countless victims; and what exactly is the true impact of this often forgotten story of crime and horror today.
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- Directed by
- Pippa Scott, Oreet Rees
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Starring
- Don Cheadle, Ciaran Reilly, Alfre Woodard











