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The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
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The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

Mar 6, 2020
1h 31m
★ 8.0

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.

Genres

Documentary
History
TV Movie

Production Companies

RTÉ
Create One
ARTE
Tyrone Productions
UCC

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Cast

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Self - Narrator (voice)

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