Documentary Film and the Volga Famine: Save the Children Fund’S <i>Famine</i> (1922)
Journal: Historical Journal Of Film Radio and Television
Year: 2023

In February 1922, the Save the Children Fund released a short documentary film, Famine, as part of their campaign to raise money for famine relief in Russia. The enormously successful campaign itself and this use of film are widely seen as a significant moment in the history of modern humanitarianism. However, while this was not the first or only film made about the Russian Famine in this period, most previous scholarship has treated Famine as such, in the context of the history of humanitariani