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When the levees broke : a requiem in four acts
Title:
When the levees broke : a requiem in four acts
ISBN:
9780783150758
Edition:
Widescreen.
Publication Information:
[New York?] : HBO Video, c2006.
Physical Description:
3 videodiscs (4 hr., 17 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Originally produced as a television documentary in 2006.

Special features: Audio commentary by filmmaker Spike Lee -- Next movement : Act V (108 min.) -- Water is rising (8 min.).
Contents:
disc 1. Act I (65 min.). Act II (62 min.) -- disc 2. Act III (58 min.). Act IV (70 min.).
Summary:
The world watched in horror as Hurrican 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.
System Details:
DVD; REGION 1; WIDESCREEN PRESENTATION (16:9) ; DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 SURROUND, DOLBY DIGITAL 2.0 STEREO.
Language Note:
CLOSED-CAPTIONED.

IN ENGLISH WITH OPTIONAL SPANISH SOUNDTRACK; OPTIONAL SUBTITLES IN FRENCH OR SPANISH.
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