A documentary narrated by Liam Neeson about the Irish Famine of the 1840s.
 In 1845, Europe was struck by a devastating famine. The crisis was triggered when a deadly fungus, having originated in South America and escaped in the holds of cargo ships, destroyed potato crops throughout northern Europe. In Ireland, where half the population relied on the potato as their primary source of food, the famine caused the deaths of over a million people and, between 1845 and 1855, the flight of a further two million to north America, Britain, Australia and New Zealand.