King Leopold's Ghost / 2006

La storia moderna del Congo, il cuore dell'Africa, è un racconto terrificante di spaventosa brutalità: come l'avido e incredibilmente spietato re Leopoldo II del Belgio (1935-1909) trasformò un vasto paese nella sua proprietà privata (1885-1908) e come saccheggiò la terra e violentò i corpi e le anime dei suoi inermi abitanti, causando innumerevoli vittime; e qual è oggi il vero impatto di questa storia, spesso dimenticata, di crimine e orrore.

Empire of Silence / 2022

For 25 years, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been ravaged by a war that has largely been ignored by the media and the international community. The victims run into the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. The perpetrators of these crimes are countless: rebel movements, but also armies, those of the Congo and neighboring countries.

Tempeste sul Congo / 1953

Elena è vedova di un medico specializzato in malattie equatoriali. Quasi per continuarne l'opera, si reca in Congo come infermiera. Nel viaggio viene scortata da una guida, Loney Douglas, che si innamora di lei.

This Is Congo / 20177.33 voti

An unfiltered look in to the lives of 3 characters surviving amongst the most recent cycle of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, otherwise known as the M23 rebellion.

Furia del Congo / 1951

Jungle Jim must protect rare pony-like animals whose glands produce a powerful narcotic. On the way, he fights a giant spider.

Totems and Taboos / 2018

In Brussels, Belgium, the Royal Museum of Central Africa is undertaking a radical renovation, both physical and ethical, to show with sincerity, crudeness and open-mindedness the reality of the atrocities perpetrated against the inhabitants of the Belgian colonies in Africa, still haunted and traumatized by the ghost of King Leopold II of Belgium, a racist and genocidal tyrant.

Congo, coeur d'Afrique / 2019

Les mines de l'enfer / 2009

For the first time, a camera enters the prohibited mining areas of Katanga province. We meet Congolese miners who, for 1 dollar a day, descend to 50 meters deep, in galleries dug in a friable rock which threatens to collapse at any time. Around them civil war and looting are still rampant. This poignant documentary reveals how the young democracy of the DRC is doing its best to install a sustainable redistribution of mineral wealth, an effective administration and national education.

The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo / 2007

Since the late 1990s, more people have died in war-torn Congo than in any conflict since World War II. In addition to the dead, hundreds of thousands of woman and girls have been raped. Rape, explains a British colonel, is a weapon of war, part of a destabilization covering the theft of valuable minerals. Rape victims are traumatized, injured, abandoned by husbands, pregnant, and ravaged by disease.