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The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 6, 2020

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Documentary, History, TV Movie

User Score

77%

Original Title

The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

Production Companies

RTÉ, Create One, ARTE, Tyrone Productions, UCC

Director

Ruán Magan

Description

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.