Few people know of the atrocities committed by the communists in Ukraine. The Holodomor, the Soviet engineered famine of 1933 was directed by Stalin agains the Ukrainian people, in a savage attempt to crush their will. Millions of people have died of hunger in one of the most shameful pages of human history.

    This film documents the Ukrainian terror famine of 1932--33, which caused the deaths of 7,000,000 people. Using interviews with survivors and scholars to supplement rare photographic evidence, it established that the terror famine was deliberately created by the Soviet Government as part of Stalin's decades-long effort to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry, who resisted the forced collectivization of their lands. Since its original release, it has received many international awards (including an Academy Award nomination) and has been featured on William F. Buckley's Firing Line program on the PBS television network. A powerful film, Harvest of Despair provides rare insight into one of this century's least-known but most vicious genocides.