Famine Movies

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

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

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....

Nigel, a famished peasant in 18th century England, takes revenge on the aristocrat that deprived him of his livelihood.

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