The Black Death

The Black Death

2004 · 50 min · Documentary

The Black Death, a pandemic disease that ravaged in the 1300s, caused a never-before-seen human catastrophe of frightening magnitude. Over the course of three terrible years, more than a third of Europe's population was wiped out.

Directed by Peter Nicholson

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