The Great Famine American Experience : Season 23 Episode 10
Not Rated PBS 3h 43m
Aired: April 25th, 2011 @ 9:00 PM EST on PBS
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 Soviet citizens died. Half a world away, Americans responded with a massive two-year relief campaign, championed by Herbert Hoover, director of the American Relief Administration.
