Europe's genocidal adventures in Africa receive a passionate reckoning in this ambitious documentary based on Adam Hochschild's best-selling history of the same title.
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08/18/06
King Leopold's Ghost (2006)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:10
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.3/10
Theatrical Release:Aug 18, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Academy Award winner Don Cheadle narrates this documentary, which takes a look at the brutal reign of King Leopold II, who oversaw the slaughter of over 10 million people in the Congo.
Reviews for King Leopold's Ghost
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King Leopold’s Ghost can be recommended as an economical education in one of the lesser-known atrocities of the capitalist system, as well as an eye-opening account of history’s most ruthless amasser of wealth.
08/23/06
Top Critic... hugely informative ... but [it] can be hard to get through ... not so much because of its sometimes excessive level of detail, but because of the stream of atrocity photographs we are subjected to.
09/29/06
An often infuriating (and excruciating) film to watch, but one that gets to the root of the despair that now plagues so much of the African continent.
09/28/06
The movie, directed by Pippa Scott and Oreet Rees, includes beautifully shot footage of the lush landscape, plus horrifying black and white footage and stills of the Congolese under the yoke of Leopold and his successors.
08/18/06
Top CriticIt is an indispensable treatise on Western hegemony and capitalist plunder -- as seen through the troubled history of the Congo.
08/18/06
Top CriticKing Leopold's Ghost traces the living legacy of colonialism.
08/18/06
Although King Leopold's Ghost dwells perhaps too long on the viciousness, it does offer clues on how it became a circle.
09/28/06
Ghost throws its most powerful punch in its second half, reporting on contempo events as a direct repeat of the ghastly Leopold era.
08/18/06
Top CriticIn its hard-hitting depiction of a legacy of unspeakable brutality, this film shows that the ghosts of Leopold are alive and well.
08/18/06
Exhaustively if sometimes depressingly thorough.
08/18/06
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