The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
Director: Ruan Magan
Available from 3:00PM ET on THURSDAY, MARCH 18
The Hunger tells the epic story of the last major famine to have struck Europe, how it sparked political turmoil and revolution and caused the deaths of 100,000 people in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the Kingdom of Prussia during the 1840s. In Ireland, where half the population of 8 million people survived on the potato as their primary food, the failure of the potato crops over successive years caused the deaths of more than 1 million people and caused 2 million to emigrate. Why Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, the richest and most powerful nation of its day, suffered so much is among the startling revelations of this moving and challenging documentary.
Liam Neeson narrates.