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When the levees broke a requiem in four acts /

When the levees broke a requiem in four acts / [videorecording] : - Widescreen (16:9) format. - [New York] : HBO Video, c2006. - 3 videodiscs (255 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Originally produced as a television documentary in 2006. Special feature (discs 1 & 2): optional audio commentary by filmmaker Spike Lee. Special feature (disc 3): "Water is rising" (photo gallery shot by David Lee, with music by Terence Blanchard; 8 min.).

Disc 1. Act I (65 min.) ; Act II (62 min.) -- Disc 2. Act III (58 min.) ; Act IV (70 min.) -- Disc 3. Next movement : Act V (107 min.) / directed by Spike Lee ; edited by Barry Alexander Brown.

Director of photography, Cliff Charles ; editors, Geeta Gandbhir, Nancy Novack, Samuel D. Pollard ; original music composed by Terence Blanchard. Director of photography, Cliff Charles ; editors, Geeta Gandbhir, Nancy Novack, Samuel D. Pollard ; original music composed by Terence Blanchard.

Four acts document distinct perspectives on the pivotal events that preceded and followed Katrina's passage through New Orleans, a catastrophe during which the divide between race and class lines has never been more pronounced.

TV-14 HBO Video.


DVD, region 1; Dolby digital 5.1 in English, Dolby digital 2.0 in Spanish.


In English or dubbed Spanish; optional French or Spanish subtitles.
Closed-captioned.

078315075X 9780783150758

026359397325

93973 HBO Video


Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Hurricanes--Louisiana--New Orleans.
Levees--Louisiana--New Orleans.
Emergency management--Louisiana--New Orleans.
Disaster relief--Louisiana--New Orleans.
Disaster victims--Louisiana--New Orleans.


New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions--21st century.
New Orleans (La.)--Economic conditions--21st century.


Documentary films.

551.55/2