The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

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TV Movie
Documentary

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.

Keywords

based on novel or book
irish history
irish great potato famine (1845-52)

Details

Status: Released
Release date: March 6, 2020
Original language: English
Spoken languages: english
Countries: France, Ireland
Production: ARTE,RTÉ,Tyrone Productions,Create One,UCC,RTÉ, Create One, ARTE, Tyrone Productions, UCC
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
Homepage: Official site
IMDb: tt13414418