What s a 2006 documentary film directed by Spike Lee about the devastation of New Orleans, American Movie or When the Levees Broke ?
When the Levees Broke 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 following the failure of the levees during Hurricane Katrina. It was filmed in late August and early September 2005, and premiered at the New Orleans Arena on August 16, 2006 and was first aired on HBO the following week. The television premiere aired in two parts on August 21 and 22, 2006 on HBO. It has been described by Sheila Nevins, chief of HBO's documentary unit, as "one of the most important films HBO has ever made." The title is a reference to the blues tune, "When the Levee Breaks", by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie, about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
Jed Horne Jed Horne is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was for many years city editor of "The Times-Picayune", the New Orleans daily newspaper. He is the author of two books: "Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City" (Random House, 2006, updated 2008), which chronicled Hurricane Katrina and the city's gradual recovery, and "Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans" (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005), the story of a Louisiana death row case. Horne was named a senior consultant to President Obama's bipartisan National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling following the 2010 blowout of BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico. In 2013 he made a documentary about the Fukushima tsunami and reactor disaster, that was broadcast on Japan's public television network, NHK. He has been interviewed by numerous radio and television personalities, including Terry Gross, Amy Goodman, Charlie Rose, and Tavis Smiley. With initial funding from George Soros, he helped,along with Ariella Cohen and Karen Gadbois to found http://thelensnola.org/, an investigative website focused on New Orleans governance.