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Footage of the Ethiopian famine of the 1980s - one of the worst humanitarian events of the 20th century. Shots of the hopeful determined villagers making the best of a bad situation.

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Newscaster, Tom Brokaw, reports on the famine in Ethiopia.
01:00:29 29.02 thumbnail
A station wagon driving across rocky, dry dusty terrain in Tigre Province, Ethiopia. With narration by unseen BBC reporter.
01:00:32 32.06 thumbnail
POV moving station wagon through the desert of Tigre. Shots of drought ridden terrain, dried out dead tree branches and tree limbs.
01:00:49 49.85 thumbnail
Z'in on the small areas of green across the desert. Shots of a small deserted village where the people left to search for food in the Sudan. pan in on a primitive, hand built, stone home.
01:01:07 67.51 thumbnail
A couple of Tigre villagers who stayed behind walk alone in the desert looking forlorn.
01:01:18 78.79 thumbnail
WS of the Tigre Cemetary , a grim memorial to the suffering people who died of hunger. Large rocks as memorial stones scattered about in a barren dry wasteland.
01:01:26 86.34 thumbnail
Ws a villager using a long pole tries to shake berries out of a tree. Faces of hungry children eating the berries.
01:01:36 96.85 thumbnail
A family of Tigre villagers sitting on the ground outside their hut look desperate. An elderly frail man leans against his son, and a woman looking weak and ill hugs her small child who is crying.
01:02:10 130.47 thumbnail
A blue truck drives through the dusty terrain - with narration unseen who states an envoy of 8 trucks heads into Tigre with food and medicine, but it's not enough.
01:02:21 141.08 thumbnail
Beauty shot, sunset in the African desert, mountains in the background.
01:02:24 144.1 thumbnail
Shots of the dry barren mountainous landscape, a road is seen carved through the desert but stops at the mouth of the mountain, a road block.
01:02:31 151.7 thumbnail
Pan in on the hand made carvings in the mountains - Dozens of Villagers from Tigre are seen digging into the mountain with their bare hands, picks and shovels, to build a 50 mile road so the trucks may pass through. Dust flies and they sing as they dig.
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