King Leopold's Ghost

King Leopold's GhostWinner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopolds Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous

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they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the 'biological division of labour'

restored 2K digital transfer

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described by The New York Times as a building that "turned the architecture world upside down

documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR

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and the first to be released after the death of Bon Scott

84 mins): feature-length documentary marking the 10th anniversary of Mathieu Kassovitz’s award-winning film