Multimedia Collection
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
DVD
256 min
2006
HV636 2005 .L8 W496 2006 DVD
As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery effort. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy, a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. The result is When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. The film is structured in four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans. The film is an intimate portrait of New Orleans in the wake of the destruction, and tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal and survived to tell the tale of misery, despair and triumph.
Featuring Ray Nagin, Sean Penn, Al Sharpton, Wynton Marsalis, Harry Belafonte. Director Spike Lee. Originally produced as a television documentary in 2006.
In English with optional Spanish soundtrack; optional subtitles in French or Spanish.
Distributed by HBO Documentary Films.
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