Famine Movies

The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the...

After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to...

August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an...

How many Yamil remembers himself, war has always been. He is very much waiting for it to end - after all, then the father will return, whom the boy...

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

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...

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...

14-year-old Zain, a Palestinian swimming champion, faces war and man-made famine. He becomes the sole caregiver to his little brother. When aid drops...

An old play starring Brendan Gleeson. Released in 1998. From the acclaimed 1990s Irish-language TV series, which starred Brendan Gleeson, Mick...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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....

Jonathan Dimbleby’s landmark 1973 documentary “The Unknown Famine” stands as a pivotal moment in Ethiopian history—a...

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

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...

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

Every day the U.S. donates millions of tons of food to famine victims and other starving people in the world's poorest countries. This provocative...

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....