Famine Movies

In 158 a group of English settlers landed near present-day North Carolina. These pilgrims expected wealth and prosperity from the untouched land but...

Documentary about Winston Churchill and the Bengal famine of 1943.

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

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. ...

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