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

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The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

8.0(5 votes)
2020
1h 31m
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
based on novel or bookirish great potato famine (1845-52)irish history

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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.

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