The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

2020 8.0 (4 votes) 1h 31m

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Documentary History TV Movie

Production Companies

RTÉ
Create One
ARTE
Tyrone Productions
UCC

The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

Overview

Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.