When the levees broke a requiem in four acts / [videorecording] : HBO Documentary Films ; directed by Spike Lee ; producers, Sam Pollard, Spike Lee ; 40 Acres and A Mule Filmworks. - Widescreen format. - [New York] : HBO Video, c2006. - 3 videodiscs (255 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Originally produced as a television documentary in 2006. Special features included.

disc 1. Act I (65 min.) ; Act II (62 min.) -- disc 2. Act III (58 min.) ; Act IV (70 min.) -- disc 3. Next movement : Act V (107 min.).

Director of photography, Cliff Charles ; editors, Geeta Gandbhir, Nancy Novack, Samuel D. Pollard ; original music composed by Terence Blanchard. Director of photography, Cliff Charles ; editors, Geeta Gandbhir, Nancy Novack, Samuel D. Pollard ; original music composed by Terence Blanchard.

Four acts document distinct perspectives on the pivotal events that preceded and followed Katrina's passage through New Orleans, a catastrophe during which the divide between race and class lines has never been more pronounced.


DVD; Dolby digital 5.1 in English; Dolby digital 2.0 in Spanish.; region 1.


Sounbdtrack in English or Spanish; subtitles in French or Spanish.
Closed-captioned.

078315075X 9780783150758

026359397325

93973 HBO Video


Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Hurricanes--Louisiana--New Orleans.
Levees--Louisiana--New Orleans.
Emergency management--Louisiana--New Orleans.
Disaster relief--Louisiana--New Orleans.
Disaster victims--Louisiana--New Orleans.


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


DVD-Video discs.
Documentary television programs.

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