Famine Movies

In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to...

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...

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.

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...

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

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....

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...

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

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....

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...

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

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. ...

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...

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...

Documentary about Winston Churchill and the Bengal famine of 1943.

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...

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