Famine Movies

A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht.

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

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....

Documentary about Winston Churchill and the Bengal famine of 1943.

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