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It was in 1932-33 though that Jones would make his name, walking alone along a railway line visiting villages during a terrible famine that killed millions. He sent moving stories of survivors to British, American and German newspapers but they were rubbished by the Stalin regime – and derided by Moscow-based western journalists, men like the New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, who wrote: "There is no famine or actual starvation, nor is there likely to be," and dismissed Jones' eyewitness accounts as a "big scare story"
From a Guardian article on Gareth Jones who reported on the Holodomor, a documentary called "The Living" has been made about him and his work in revealing the man made famine in Ukraine. Unfortunately, no word on whether the documentary will get a wider release and I couldn't find a site for the documentary itself.
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