The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
2020
8.0 (5)
1 hr 31 min
English
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.
- Status
- Released
- Production
- RTÉ, Create One, ARTE, Tyrone Productions
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- irish great potato famine (1845-52)
- irish history
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