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Based on Adam Hochschild's 1998 historical novel of the same name, the film traces the brutal legacy of King Leopold II of Belgium. In the 1880s, Leopold began an underhanded campaign for the right to colonize the Congo Free State for himself, and once he succeeded, he turned the country into a slave camp, stripping out all valuable resources and slaughtering the locals. The film features interviews with Belgian scholars and Congolese survivors and is narrated by Don Cheadle.

Rating:

PG-13 (Descriptions of Inhumanity|Graphic and Disturbing Images)
Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Pippa Scott, Oreet Rees
Producer:

Pippa Scott
Writer:

Pippa Scott
Release Date (Streaming):

May 20, 2016
Runtime:

1h 47m
Production Co:

Linden Productions
Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Cast & Crew

Don Cheadle
Narrator

Pippa Scott
Director

Oreet Rees
Director

Pippa Scott
Producer

Glory Friend
Co-Producer

Pippa Scott
Writer

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Critic Reviews for King Leopold's Ghost

All Critics (12) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (1)

Although King Leopold's Ghost dwells perhaps too long on the viciousness, it does offer clues on how it became a circle.

September 28, 2006 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Michael Ordoña
Los Angeles Times
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.

August 23, 2006

Andrew Sarris
Observer
In its hard-hitting depiction of a legacy of unspeakable brutality, this film shows that the ghosts of Leopold are alive and well.

August 18, 2006

Sheri Linden
Hollywood Reporter
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.

August 18, 2006 | Rating: 3.5/4

Jack Mathews
New York Daily News
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.

August 18, 2006 | Rating: 2.5/5

Manohla Dargis
New York Times
Exhaustively if sometimes depressingly thorough.

August 18, 2006 | Rating: 3/4

Stephen Whitty
Newark Star-Ledger
In great detail, we see the origins of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, the galvanizing of ruthless investigative reporters and the glimmer of what might have been...

December 6, 2018 | Rating: A | Full Review…

Saundra Sorenson
Ventura County Reporter
... 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.

September 29, 2006

Andy Klein
Los Angeles CityBeat
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.

September 28, 2006

Ernest Hardy
L.A. Weekly