Hunger Movies

Documentary feature film that follows the personal stories of families struggling in the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great...

Heckel and Jeckle decide it is too much trouble and time-consuming, not to mention wear-and-tear on their wings, to fly south for the winter, so they...

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

A young girl sent to an orphanage run by nuns gets confronted with the cruel and outdated methods used by the staff.

A wolf, deprived of meat by war rationing and starving, sees an article in the newspaper about a sheepdog leaving his flock to join the army and...

Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train...

A kappa village is devastated by a large storm during festival preparations. With no fish in the river, the village is weakened. Kawatarou and his...

A mother and her son partake in a rage filled dinner together.

When the governor hears that a general inspector has come to town, fearing that he'll uncover his corruption, he and his government officials panic....

Biscut is a powerful film on the state of politics in Uttar Pradesh and offers a gritty and hard-hitting take on the treatment of the backward...

During the largest food crisis in a century, a group of college students step up to help those facing hunger. Their small local effort inspires hope...

A woman struggles with an uncontrollable craving.

After ten years of war, plague and famine, the land is swept clean of people. The few remaining souls are scattered about, living in misery and...

A magician transforms a tiny dinner table into a full meal for a homeless man.

Snow White wakes up as a zombie and she is very hungry.

H. Oboe Rhodes, a "knight of the road," limps into a large city with the idea of appeasing his hunger. His first quest is the welcoming doors of a...

Is our food bought at the price of famine in the developing world? Is agribusiness more interested in producing profits than producing food? This PBS...

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath it. Hunger marches organised by the National...