Famine Movies

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

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.

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...

Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine.

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

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...

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 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 sani...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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 w...

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