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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones Documentaries
Season 2 · Episode 13
Congo - A Curse of Riches
0.026mDecember 18, 2007
The Congo encompasses a million square miles of the richest land in Africa. Yet despite that wealth -- or perhaps because of it -- throughout their history the Congolese would nearly starve to death, economically and politically. Their vast riches would bring only suffering, corruption, and death.
Episodes
- Episode 1The Somme - A Storm of Steel
- Episode 2Siegfried Sassoon - A War Poet's Journey
- Episode 3Robert Graves and the White Goddess
- Episode 4I Am France - The Myth of Charles de Gaulle
- Episode 5Into the Furnace - The Battle of Verdun
- Episode 6Marshal Pétain's Fall from Grace
- Episode 7Flirting with Danger - The Fantasy of Mata Hari
- Episode 8Reading the Enemy's Mind - Espionage in World War I
- Episode 9Chasing the Phantom - Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck
- Episode 10Dreaming of Africa - The Life of Frederick Selous
- Episode 11At Home and Abroad - The Two Faces of Jan Smuts
- Episode 12Albert Schweitzer - Reverence for Life
- Episode 13Congo - A Curse of Riches
- Episode 14Waging Peace - The Rise of Pacifism
- Episode 15War in the Third Dimension - Aerial Warfare in World War I
- Episode 16Blood Red - The Life and Death of Manfred von Richthofen
- Episode 17Flying High for France - The Lafayette Escadrille
- Episode 18Anthony Fokker - The Flying Dutchman
- Episode 19Karl - The Last Habsburg Emperor
- Episode 20The Russian Revolution - All Power to the Soviets!
- Episode 21V. I. Lenin - History Will Not Forgive Us
- Episode 22Impresario - Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes
- Episode 23Ballet - The Art of Dance
- Episode 24Franz Kafka's Dark Truth
- Episode 25Lines in the Sand - The Middle East and the Great War
- Episode 26Colonel Lawrence's War - T.E. Lawrence and Arabia
- Episode 27Historical Lecture: War and Revolution