The Forgotten Famine (Original title)
Date: 12 August 1997 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Mark Halliley
Synopsis: Documentary tellng the full story of maladministration and official in- difference behind three million deaths between 1943 and 1944 in the famine that struck Bengal. In the 1940s, what is now Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal had a population of 60 million. When the Japanese cut through Burma, the British reponse was to concentrate food supplies on the war workers in Calcutta instead of those who had grown the food, thus devas- tating the local populace. Eye-witness reports piece together a forgotten catastrophe.
Genres: Current affairs, War, Documentary
Subjects: West Bengal, Bangladesh, Famines
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 12 August 1997Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:00-22:00Runtime: 51 mins 30 secs - Network - Language: English - Colour and Black and White - Sound
Date: 12 August 1997 (Television)Country: United KingdomDirector: Mark Halliley
Synopsis: Documentary tellng the full story of maladministration and official in- difference behind three million deaths between 1943 and 1944 in the famine that struck Bengal. In the 1940s, what is now Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal had a population of 60 million. When the Japanese cut through Burma, the British reponse was to concentrate food supplies on the war workers in Calcutta instead of those who had grown the food, thus devas- tating the local populace. Eye-witness reports piece together a forgotten catastrophe.
Genres: Current affairs, War, Documentary
Subjects: West Bengal, Bangladesh, Famines
Series title:
TV Transmissions
Date: 12 August 1997Broadcast channel: Channel FourCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 21:00-22:00Runtime: 51 mins 30 secs - Network - Language: English - Colour and Black and White - Sound
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Production Company: Uden Associates, Producer: Patrick Uden