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Film Category: Thematic
This beautifully shot film offers up first-person accounts, beginning from the day the hurricane barreled its way into the lives and hearts of New Orleans’s…
MORE ›A member of the National Guard returns from Iraq and sees in New Orleans’s devastation a new mission. He has hopes for a marriage to…
MORE ›Music legend Elvis Costello journeys to New Orleans to celebrate the songbook and spirit of the hurricane-battered city’s Renaissance man, Allen Toussaint. With the Katrina-exiled…
MORE ›A filmmaker comforts her Colombian grandmother as they examine the wreckage of her home in Waveland, Mississippi. Paola Mendoza feared that her grandmother, who cannot…
MORE ›Experience how class operates in gentrification through the youthful eyes of 10-year-old Pam Taylor and her 12-year-old brother Scott in their multiracial Chicago neighborhood. The…
MORE ›In the wake of one of the worst natural and humanitarian disasters ever to visit American shores, 600 African Americans were airlifted to the almost…
MORE ›Like their neighbors, the legendary New Orleans music community was devastated by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Music documentarian Robert Mugge creates an emotional portrait of…
MORE ›On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history hit the Gulf Coast region. Sixteen people, seven dogs, and eight cats took shelter…
MORE ›The time is August 2005. A teenage New Orleans brass band, playing borrowed and taped-together instruments on the corner of Bourbon and Canal Streets, is…
MORE ›This film tells the story of one woman who descends from middle-class security to welfare and then abject poverty. But her fierce desire to protect…
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