Moments in Time

Famine to Freedom: The Great Irish Journey (1x9)

Air date: Sep 03, 2003

Examining the great migration of Irish in 1845, and the potato famine that caused it. A team of scientists excavate a 19th-century village in an attempt to discover what life was like for farmers and residents during the great famine, when more than a million people were killed by starvation or disease.