critiQs

Login Sign-up
King Leopold's Ghost

King Leopold's Ghost

# The unbelievable story of Congo's brutal history with its Belgian colonizers
Documentary   History
📜 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.
🌏 Languages Available: English , French
📆 Date Released: 2006-05-28
⌚ Running Time: 102 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 7.7

Beloved Cast

Don Cheadle original image
Narrator (voice)
Don Cheadle
Ciaran Reilly original image
Roger Casement (voice)
Ciaran Reilly
Alfre Woodard original image
Ilanga (voice)
Alfre Woodard
Philippe Bergeron original image
Philippe Bergeron
James Cromwell original image
James Cromwell
Frank McCourt original image
Frank McCourt
Adam Hochschild original image
Self
Adam Hochschild

Similar Movies

0.0
Movie Name : Shattered Games
Release Date : 🕔 2024-10-29
Average Rating: 0.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : The Polish national chess squad, the 'Golden Team', won the world chess championship in Hamburg in 1930, and was renamed …

8.0
Movie Name : Barry Lyndon
Release Date : 🕔 1975-12-18
Average Rating: 8.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, …

7.0
Movie Name : True Spirit
Release Date : 🕔 2023-01-26
Average Rating: 7.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : When the tenacious young sailor Jessica Watson sets out to be the youngest person to sail solo, nonstop and unassisted …

7.446
Movie Name : The Right Stuff
Release Date : 🕔 1983-10-20
Average Rating: 7.446
Genres:
Duration :

overview : As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter …

7.0
Movie Name : Rabbit-Proof Fence
Release Date : 🕔 2002-02-04
Average Rating: 7.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set …

6.6
Movie Name : Las locuras de don Quijote
Release Date : 🕔 2006-10-03
Average Rating: 6.6
Genres:
Duration :

overview : An epic journey through Don Quixote's troubled mind, from which five paths to the unknown are opened: to reason, to …

5.7
Movie Name : Attica
Release Date : 🕔 1980-03-02
Average Rating: 5.7
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Acclaimed dramatization recreating the incidents surrounding the 1971 revolt in New York's Attica State Prison that lasted for 23 days …

5.8
Movie Name : The Challenger Disaster
Release Date : 🕔 2019-01-25
Average Rating: 5.8
Genres:
Duration :

overview : On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This …

6.558
Movie Name : Flyboys
Release Date : 🕔 2006-09-22
Average Rating: 6.558
Genres:
Duration :

overview : The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War …

6.722
Movie Name : My Brother Is an Only Child
Release Date : 🕔 2007-03-28
Average Rating: 6.722
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by …

0.0
Movie Name : Kaum De Heere
Release Date : 🕔 2014-08-22
Average Rating: 0.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Militant bodyguards carry out the assassination of the Indian Prime Minister in 1984.

0.0
Movie Name : Outside Us
Release Date : 🕔 2024-02-02
Average Rating: 0.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : As Percival Lowell, an optimistic astronomer, fervently believes he has discovered extraterrestrial structures across various planets, he races against skepticism …

6.0
Movie Name : Shielding the Flame
Release Date : 🕔 2023-04-19
Average Rating: 6.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview :

0.0
Movie Name : [MADO]
Release Date : 🕔 2023-07-07
Average Rating: 0.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Starring Masahiko Nishimura, "MADO(Window)" is an extremely closed, socially conscious drama based on a true story of the actual court …

6.6
Movie Name : War Sailor
Release Date : 🕔 2022-09-23
Average Rating: 6.6
Genres:
Duration :

overview : War Sailor is a magnificent drama that tells the story of the more than 30,000 Norwegian war sailors and their …

6.0
Movie Name : Boys Will Be Boys, Boys Will Be Men
Release Date : 🕔 2000-04-28
Average Rating: 6.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In May of 1941, a group of young army volunteers is recruited in Chumpon south of Bangkok. Many high-school students …

7.6
Movie Name : A Night to Remember
Release Date : 🕔 1958-07-03
Average Rating: 7.6
Genres:
Duration :

overview : The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is …

6.757
Movie Name : The Madness of King George
Release Date : 🕔 1994-12-28
Average Rating: 6.757
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch …

Comments (0)