Det danske Congo-æventyr (2006)

This documentary consists of three parts covering the Danish involvement in the colonization of Congo: 'Opdagerne' (The discoverers), 'Erobrerne' (The conquerors), and 'Hjælperne' (The helpers). Danes contributed for more than a century to both one of the world's bloodiest colonizations and to the reconstruction of the country. The three short films in this series depicts how first the discoverers, then the conquerors and then the helpers came to the Congo. The series follows people like Albert Christoffersen (the discoverers), who traveled under the command of Henry Morton Stanley in the late 1800s; the poor boy Frederik Valdemar Olsen (the conqueror), who ends up as a general in the Belgian colonial army, and finally the doctor Jakob Raft (the helper), who in the 1960s leads Denmark's first developing country project in Congo. Tygesen travels through the beautiful landscape and shows a number of archival images to tell the hidden story of danish influence and contribution to the horrific acts of conquest - and the construction of the richest colony in Africa.