(0 votes, average: 0.00/10)- Country: USA
- Genres: Documentary
- Release: 2006-08-21
- Director: N/A
- Writers: N/A
- Language: English
- Stars: Darleen Asevedo , Jay Asevedo , Shelton Shakespear Alexander
- Runtime: 255 min
- Awards: Won 3 Primetime Emmys. 8 wins & 9 nominations total
- AKA: Quando os Diques Se Romperam: Um Réquiem em Quatro Atos , Quand les digues se sont brisées: un requiem en quatre actes (Canada) , Quand les digues se sont brisées: un requiem en quatre actes (France, French Republic) , व्हेन द लेवीज़ ब्रोक: ए रिक्वेम इन फोर एक्ट्स (India) , Padot eivät kestä (Finland) , When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (United States of America) , When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Australia) , Когда рушатся плотины: Реквием в четырех актах (Russian Federation) , When the Levees Broke (United States of America) , Kiedy puściły wały: Requiem w 4 aktach (Poland) , When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (Canada) , Otan espasan ta fragmata (Greece) , Os Diques se Romperam (Brazil) , Quando os diques quebraram: um réquiem em quatro atos (Brazil) , When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts , Cuando se rompieron los diques: Réquiem en cuatro actos (Mexico) , Una tragedia americana: Una mirada de Spike Lee sobre el Katrina (Argentina) , När fördämningarna inte höll (Finland) , When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (United Kingdom) , Als die Deiche brachen: Ein Requiem in vier Akten (Germany) , Quando gli argini si sono rotti: un requiem in quattro atti (Italy) , Catherine (France, French Republic) , When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (India) , Rekviem a hurrikánról (Hungary) , Cuando se rompieron los diques: Réquiem en cuatro actos (Spain)
- Plot: In August 2005, the American city of New Orleans was struck by the powerful Hurricane Katrina. Although the storm was damaging by itself, that was not the true disaster. That happened when the city's flooding safeguards like levees failed and put most of the city, which is largely below sea level, underwater. This film covers that disastrous series of events that devastated the city and its people. Furthermore, the gross incompetence of the various governments and the powerful from the local to the federal level is examined to show how the poor and underprivileged of New Orleans were mistreated in this grand calamity and still ignored today.
- IMDB:tt0783612
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Harry Belafonte
Self
Wendell Pierce
(I)
Self
Mike Myers
(I)
Self
Dick Cheney
Self
Terence Blanchard
Self
Wynton Marsalis
Self
Al Sharpton
Self
Sean Penn
Self
Kanye West
Self
Anderson Cooper
Self
Gina Montana
Self
Condoleezza Rice
Self
George W. Bush
Self (archive footage)
Barbara Bush
Self (archive footage)