Famine Movies

Set in 1867, the year of the great famine in Finland. A farmer’s wife sets off on foot through the snow with her two young children towards St....

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

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

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....

The cartoon's main character is a girl living in the times of the Famine and personally experiencing all the terrors of this major crime against...