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

2020
Directed byRuán Magan
1h 31m

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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Liam NeesonSelf - Narrator (voice)
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