When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-12-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

255 min

Rated:

TV-MA

IMDB Ratings:

8.6 (3463 Reviews)

Genres:

Documentary

Cast:

Darleen Asevedo

Fullplot:

In August 2005, the American city of New Orleans was struck by the powerful Hurricane Katrina. Although the storm was damaging by itself, that was not the true disaster. That happened when the city's flooding safeguards like levees failed and put most of the city, which is largely below sea level, underwater. This film covers that disastrous series of events that devastated the city and its people. Furthermore, the gross incompetence of the various governments and the powerful from the local to the federal level is examined to show how the poor and underprivileged of New Orleans were mistreated in this grand calamity and still ignored today.

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