When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Season 1

TV-14
An examination of the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina.

4 Episodes

  • Act I
    E1
    Act I
  • Act II
    E2
    Act IIAct II finds the survivors struggling to keep it together while the federal, state, and local assistance they've been promised fails to show up.
  • Act III
    E3
    Act IIIAct III traces the dispersal of the so-called "refugees" (as one man puts it, "Refugees? You mean they took away our citizenship, too?") all over the country, not knowing where their families, friends, and neighbors are, or even if they're still alive.
  • Act IV
    E4
    Act IVAct IV deals with the slow rebuilding of the city while insurance companies refuse to pay claims and money keeps going toward the Iraq war effort instead.

Cast of Season 1

  • Ray NaginSelf
  • Garland RobinetteSelf
  • Kathleen BlancoSelf
  • Darleen AsevedoSelf
  • Jay AsevedoSelf
  • Harry BelafonteSelf
  • Wendell PierceSelf
  • Mike MyersSelf
  • Dick CheneySelf
  • Terence BlanchardSelf
  • Wynton MarsalisSelf
  • Al SharptonSelf
  • Sean PennSelf
  • Kanye WestSelf
  • Anderson CooperSelf
  • Gina MontanaSelf
  • Condoleezza RiceSelf
  • George W. BushSelf (archive footage)
  • Barbara BushSelf (archive footage)
  • Spike LeeDirector / Producer

 

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