The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

First aired on Mar 6, 2020

Runtime: 91mins

80%

Genres: Documentary, History, TV Movie

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.