When the Levees Broke
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Spike Lee, and other SIFF sightings...his discoveries. Best of all were the carefully chosen film clips, especially from "Do the Right Thing," "4 Little Girls" and "When the Levees Broke," which demonstrated how empty modern American cinema would be without him. So far in the... In this article: Spike Lee, Malcolm X, 500 Days Of Summer, Twitter, The Seattle Times Company, Dodsworth, Spartacus, Halle Berry, Samuel L. Jackson, and Queen Latifah |
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...as its most provocative. His 2006 documentary about the New Orleans flood, When The Levees Broke, was a damning attack on the US government's failure to deal with a crisis situation in a mostly black-populated area. 3 WILL SMITH The biggest...
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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts is a 2006 documentary film directed by Spike Lee about the devastation of New Orleans, Louisiana due to the failure of the levees during Hurricane Katrina.
The film runs for 4 hours, and premiered at the New Orleans Arena on August 16, 2006. The television premiere aired in two parts on August 21 and 22, 2006 on HBO. The film was shown in its entirety on August 29, 2006, the one-year anniversary of Katrina's landfall. It has been described by an HBO executive as "one of the most important films HBO has ever made."
The documentary was also screened at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival on August 31 and September 1, 2006. It won the Orizzonti Documentary Prize and one of two FIPRESCI awards. In addition it was shown at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival on September 15 and September 16, 2006. On July 19, 2007, it was nominated for five Emmys, and it won three on September 16.
The title is a reference to the blues tune "When the Levee Breaks", by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie (later repopularized by Led Zeppelin) about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
The film's original score is by Terence Blanchard, a New Orleans-born trumpeter who also appears in the film with his mother and aunt as they return to their flooded home.
The documentary consists largely of news footage and still photos of Katrina and its aftermath interspersed with interviews. Interviewees throughout the film include politicians, journalists, historians, engineers, and many people from various parts of New Orleans and the surrounding areas who give first hand accounts of their experiences with the levee failures and the aftermath.
- Name:
- When the Levees Broke
- Country of Origin:
- USA
- Release Date:
- August 16, 2006
- Directed By:
- Spike Lee
- Produced by:
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- Samuel D. Pollard
- Spike Lee
- Editor:
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- Barry Alexander Brown
- Geeta Gandbhir
- Nancy Novack
- Samuel D. Pollard
- Cinematography:
- Cliff Charles
- Music By:
- Terence Blanchard
- Distributed By:
- HBO
- Length:
- 255 min
- Language:
- English
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