The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine (2020)
• March 6th, 2020 • 1h 31min
Documentary, History, TV Movie
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.
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