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The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine - Episode 1

Item #: 288272

The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine - Episode 2

Item #: 288273

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The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

The Series Includes : The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine - Episode 1 | The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine - Episode 2

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Description

In the 1840s, a catastrophic famine brought about the decimation of Ireland’s poor and the exodus of millions from the island. This major, ground-breaking documentary, narrated by Liam Neeson, explores the famine’s international origins and development in Europe, Britain and Ireland and charts its long-term legacy as it plays out for much of the century that follows. Today the Irish famine is recognized as the worst humanitarian disaster of the 19th Century but what is less recognized is that the crisis impacted far beyond Ireland’s shores. The story of the Blight pathogen that killed the potato crop, starts in the Andes of South America and then reaches into the heart of northern Europe where the collapse of potato crops causes the deaths of 100,000 people adding further fuel to social tensions that lead to Europe’s year of revolutions in 1848. Featuring insights from Irish and international experts and academics, chillingly stark narration, rare contemporary photographs and illustrations, stunningly beautiful cinematography and an original music score, The Great Hunger builds a heart-wrenching and thought provoking analysis of how events unfolded

Length: 102 minutes

Item#: BVL288271