The scale of Somalia's devastating famine is almost incomprehensible, but the greatest shame of the tragedy is that it's man-made.

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Synopsis | Hell On Earth (2011)
In 2011, tens of thousands of people in Somalia were dying in the worst famine the world had seen for a hundred years. Yet, an ongoing civil war meant help couldn't get to many of those starving. It was an epic humanitarian crisis so overwhelming, it's easy to think: 'what can we do?' But when you meet the Somali people, as Allison Langdon did, and see the hope that still burns in their eyes, you realize what seems like hell on earth to us, is to them, the homeland they're desperate to save.

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