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  • Summary: Based on Adam Hochschild's critically acclaimed international bestseller King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, the documentary centers on the atrocities that are still happening everyday in the Congo as a result of King Leopold II of Belgium's rule and the development of one of the world’s first human rights movements.… Expand

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 7
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  1. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    88
    This brilliant documentary, which shows not only how Belgian King Leopold II made the huge and resource-rich central African Congo his own private reserve, but how his legacy of exploiting the land and brutalizing its people continues in modern times.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    80
    King Leopold's Ghost is 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.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    50
    Ms. Scott's outrage is palpable, but she has bitten off enough here for a 10-hour television series.

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  1. DaveC.
    10
    supurb film in every way...absolutley stunning..better than Godfather Part 2.
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