When the levees broke : a requiem in four acts

Resource Information

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Label

When the levees broke : a requiem in four acts

Title remainder

a requiem in four acts

Statement of responsibility

a Spike Lee film ; 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks ; HBO Documentary Films ; director, Spike Lee ; producers, Sam Pollard, Spike Lee ; executive producer, Sheila Nevins

Contributor

• Gandbhir, Geeta
• Lee, Spike
• trueMarsalis, Wynton, 1961-
• trueNagin, Ray, 1956-
• trueNevins, Sheila
• Novack, Nancy
• truePenn, Sean, 1960-
• trueSharpton, Al
• Pollard, Sam
• Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks
• HBO Documentary Films
• HBO Video (Firm)
• Home Box Office (Firm)
• trueBelafonte, Harry, 1927-
• Blanchard, Terence
• Charles, Cliff

Subject

• Historical -- Feature
• Auxilio en los desastres -- Luisiana | New Orleans
• Disaster relief -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Disaster relief -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Disaster victims -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Disaster victims -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Disasters -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Documentary -- Feature
• Documentary films
• Emergency management -- Government policy -- United States
• Emergency management -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Feature films
• Historical films
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005
• trueHurricane Katrina, 2005
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects
• Hurricanes -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Hurricanes -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Levees -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Levees -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Muros de contención -- Luisiana | New Orleans
• New Orleans (La.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
• New Orleans (La.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
• New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions -- 21st century
• Television mini-series
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Documentary films
• Feature films
• Historical
• Historical films
• Television mini-series
• Documentary
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

The world watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Many were shocked, not only by the scale of the disaster, but the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery efforts. Structured into four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans. Tells the heartbreaking personal stories of those who endured this harrowing ordeal and survived to tell the tale

Member of

• When the levees broke (Television program)

Awards note

Venice International Film Festival, 2006: Venice Horizons Documentary Award, Human Rights Film Network Award; Image Awards, 2007: Image Award (nominated); Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, 2007: BCFA Award (nominated); American Cinema Editors, 2007: best edited documentary (nominated).

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Cliff Charles ; supervising editor, Sam Pollard ; editors, Geeta Gandbhir, Nancy Novack ; original music, Terence Blanchard

Dewey number

551.55/2

Intended audience

TV parental guidelines rating: TV-14 (parents strongly cautioned); Canadian home video rating: 14A (suitable for people 14 years of age or older)

Language note

In English (5,1) with optional Spanish soundtrack (2.0); optional subtitles in French or Spanish; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

LC call number

HV636 2005 .L8

LC item number

W496 2006

PerformerNote

Featuring Ray Nagin, Sean Penn, Al Sharpton, Wynton Marsalis, Harry Belafonte

Runtime

257

Technique

live action