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Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

When the Levees Broke : a Requiem in Four Acts / 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks ; HBO Documentary Films ; [director, Spike Lee] ; producers, Sam Pollard, Spike Lee.

Edition:

Widescreen.

Publisher, Date:

Description:

3 videodiscs (4 hr., 17 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

plastic

4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

videodisc

Laserdisc

video file DVD video

Region 1

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.

Target Audience Note:

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

Subjects:

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects.

Hurricanes -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

Disasters -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

Disaster relief -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

Levees -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

Emergency management -- Government policy -- United States.

Disaster victims -- Louisiana -- New Orleans.

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

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

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Historical television programs.

Television programs for the hearing impaired.

Documentary films.

Disaster films.

Other Author:

Lee, Spike.

Pollard, Sam.

Nagin, Ray, 1956-

Penn, Sean, 1960-

Sharpton, Al.

Marsalis, Wynton, 1961-

Belafonte, Harry, 1927-2023

Charles, Cliff.

Gandbhir, Geeta.

Novack, Nancy.

Blanchard, Terence.

HBO Documentary Films.

Forty Acres & a Mule Filmworks.

Home Box Office (Firm)

HBO Video (Firm)

Other Title:

Requiem in four acts

Notes:

Documentary.

"This has been a presentation of Home Box Office."

Originally produced as a television documentary in 2006.

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

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

DVD, Region 1, widescreen presentation (16:9); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.

Closed captioned.

In English with optional Spanish soundtrack; optional subtitles in French or Spanish.

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).

Contents:

Special features: on discs 1-2: Audio commentary by filmmaker Spike Lee; on disc 3: Next movement : Act V (108 min.); Water is rising (8 min.).

disc 1. Act I (65 min.) ; Act II (62 min.) -- disc 2. Act III (58 min.) ; Act IV (70 min.).

ISBN:

9780783150758

078315075X

9786318542838 : DVD

6318542833 : DVD

Publisher Number:

93973

Other Number:

72075457

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

956902

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

DVD 363.34922 When the