Movies: Famine

August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an almost impossible task: to stage the premiere of Dimitri Shostakovitch's "Leningrad Symphony". The p...

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. Examine Herbert Hoover’s American Relief Administration—an operation hailed for its efficiency, grit ...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat of war. The village well has run dry. The livestock is dying. Trusting their instinct, most of the villagers leave...

In 1315, the Great Famine swept across the land, and a family of farmers are struck with the loss of their son. When the body goes missing, their sanity hangs on by a thread....

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

In a time of famine a starving girl and her mother are rescued from the roadside by a stranger. But the stranger has other motives....

In a dystopian future, where one ex-government scientist holds the key to ending the nation's famine, only a government investigator can stand in his way. His secret research is threatened when a neighbour reports his suspicious behaviour....

Tells the story of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932-33, the genocidal Great Famine or the Holodomor, and one Welshman's attempts to tell the world what was happening....

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 humanity....

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

In 158 a group of English settlers landed near present-day North Carolina. These pilgrims expected wealth and prosperity from the untouched land but instead received famine and hyperthermia. Their eventual fate has been unknown until now....

Documentary about Winston Churchill and the Bengal famine of 1943....

When the son of the owner of a woollen mill learns of the plight of the starving Jews in Russia he sets about raising money to ease their suffering. After raising $100,000, he plans to travel to Russia but is dismayed to find that his father wants h...

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. Petersburg....

Swedish documentary from 1977. The film is about the last starvation year in Sweden, the emergency year 1867 in Ångermanland. It is a story about people who are hurting, but also about efforts from the outside world to help the developing country Swe...

In the grip of a famine, a farmer must provide for his starving family, however his desperation is exploited by a mischievous being, that tempts him with something precious....

The film shows the connection between agricultural overproduction in Europe and hunger in Brazil....