PBS American Experience - The Great Famine (2011)
HDTV | 1916 x 1072 | .MKV/AVC @ 3567 Kbps | 53 min 2 s | 1.46 GB
Audio: English AC-3 384 Kbps, 6 channels | Subs: English
Genre: Documentary
The little-known story of the American effort to relieve starvation in the new Soviet Russia in 1921, The Great Famine is a documentary about the worst natural disaster in Europe since the Black Plague in the Middle Ages. Five million Russians died. Half a world away, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by Herbert Hoover, director of the American Relief Administration known as the ARA.