Search Results: famine
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Movies (16)
Famine
Two years after a high-school prank involving flesh-eating acid nearly kills popular teacher Mr. Balszack, the graduating class of Sloppy Secondary holds a ’24-Hour Famine’ charity...
Famine
BAFTA-nominated documentary about famine in the state of Bihar, India made for ITV.
Famine
A small fly is blamed for vicious cannibal attacks in Insect City. Can he untangle the web of deceit that has fallen over the city?
The Unknown Famine
Jonathan Dimbleby’s landmark 1973 documentary “The Unknown Famine” stands as a pivotal moment in Ethiopian history—a journalistic endeavour that not only exposed a humanitarian cri...
The Cocaine Famine
The Cocaine Famine is an Irish black comedy about cocaine and the futility of nationalism. Two Irish drug dealers, Jacko and his much-maligned sidekick Niallser, drag a captured co...
29 Hour Famine
When a devout teenager discovers evidence of someone eating at her church youth group’s annual fasting event, she goes to absurd lengths to catch the culprit.
Cargill: Feast or Famine?
American mulitnational, Cargill, trades in food commodities. The corporation is at the center of a controversy regarding destruction of food crops and local jobs, pollution, and de...
In the Days of Famine
Jan De Bar, a young French-Canadian, is sent out from the Hudson Bay Company's post at God's Lake to perform the perilous task of burning the plague-stricken cabins of those who ha...
Cruel Famine Continent
Cruel Famine Continent documents the Great Sahelian drought in West Africa and its effect on the people. The production was an attempt to pivot Toei's output from yakuza films and ...
Famine '87
The film examines the impact of sustained scarcity and flawed ideas of modernization on the lives and land of the pastoral Banni community in the desert region of Kutch in Western ...
The Famine Within
Documents the contemporary obsession with an unrealistic body size and shape among North American women and the eating disorders it engenders.
The Great Irish Famine
This documentary examines the Irish famine of 1845, caused by a blight that devastated the potato crop, the main source of food for the poor in rural Ireland.
Famine-33
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 Katrannyk family of six. It relies ...
The Great Famine
When a devastating famine descended on Soviet Russia in 1921, it was the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Examine Herbert Hoover’s Americ...
Food or Famine
A BAFTA award nominated looking at methods of increasing food production, including improved strains of crops, the use of pesticides, weedkillers and insecticides and land reclamat...
The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
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, suf...
TV Series (2)
The Great Famine
In September 1845, a devastating new plant disease swept across Ireland, destroying the potato crops on which the majority of the people depended. Aid from the British government w...
Mao's Great Famine
Between 1958 and 1962, China lived through tragedy on an epic scale. The Great Leap Forward conceived by Mao so that China could drive industrial output ahead of Great Britain and ...
