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The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

Audience Score
70
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
NR 1 hr 31 minDocumentary, History, TV Movie
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.
StarringLiam Neeson
DirectorRuán Magan

Movie Details

Original Language:English
Production Companies:RTÉ, Create One, ARTE, Tyrone Productions, UCC