Famine Movies

When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages....

Fear and superstition take hold of a young family during a time of great hunger in 1879 Ireland.

Every day the U.S. donates millions of tons of food to famine victims and other starving people in the world's poorest countries. This provocative...

Documentary about Winston Churchill and the Bengal famine of 1943.

Swedish documentary from 1977. The film is about the last starvation year in Sweden, the emergency year 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story...