Famine Movies

A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht.

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.

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 Katra...

Year 2020. Famine has begun in the world, and superpowers have begun to look for food. Russia has found a whole planet of food. Year 2024. Russia send...

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...

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

A hilarious adventure of a 6-year-old orphan named Joy and a small wooden temple of disciples. During the great famine, the temple was engulfed in con...

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 human...

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 world...

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. Peters...

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. E...

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

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

Documentary about Winston Churchill and the Bengal famine of 1943.

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....