Famine Movies

In Tokugawa-era (1637) Shimabara, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro...

In 1315, the Great Famine swept across the land, and a family of farmers are struck with the loss of their son. When the body goes missing, their...

14-year-old Zain, a Palestinian swimming champion, faces war and man-made famine. He becomes the sole caregiver to his little brother. When aid drops...

At the end of WWII the Dutch resistance kills a German officer in front of the house of a Dutch family. Years after the war the young boy who...

Jacob's farm is in trouble from a severe drought. Jacob and Sarah begin to wonder if Sarah can stay, and what will happen to Jacob if she and the...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat...

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself...

How many Yamil remembers himself, war has always been. He is very much waiting for it to end - after all, then the father will return, whom the boy...

Farmer struggles to keep food on the table, and regain his son who has joined a gang of marauding city-folk during the world's worst famine.

Set in 1867, the year of the great famine in Finland. A farmer’s wife sets off on foot through the snow with her two young children towards St....

August 1942: Amidst the unimaginable suffering inflicted during the blockade of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht, an orchestra director was given an...

When a stranded soldier shows up on a peasant family’s doorstep pleading for shelter, they take him in on account of their religious values....

In 158 a group of English settlers landed near present-day North Carolina. These pilgrims expected wealth and prosperity from the untouched land but...

In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to...

The film shows the connection between agricultural overproduction in Europe and hunger in Brazil.

Every day the U.S. donates millions of tons of food to famine victims and other starving people in the world's poorest countries. This provocative...

The film about the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, based on the novel 'The Yellow Prince' by Vasyl Barka. The film is told through the lives of the...

Fear and superstition take hold of a young family during a time of great hunger in 1879 Ireland.

When the son of the owner of a woollen mill learns of the plight of the starving Jews in Russia he sets about raising money to ease their suffering. ...

A tory based on classical theatre play "Mother Courage and Her Children" by Bertolt Brecht.