NOVA - Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Drowned a City
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781593755423
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1593755422
Label: WGBH Boston
Manufacturer: WGBH Boston
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: WGBH Boston
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Running Time: 56 minutes
Sales Rank: 15237
Studio: WGBH Boston
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Editorial Review:
Description:
On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, killing at least 1,300, destroying over 600,000 houses, and turning downtown New Orleans into an uninhabitable swamp.
In a compelling hour-by-hour reconstruction of the ferocious storm, NOVA exposes crucial failures in preparation and engineering that led to the worst disaster in U.S. history. The film probes the titanic forces behind hurricanes and the latest technology for tracking and predicting them, showing how scientists precisely foresaw the impact of a strong hurricane on New Orleans a year before Katrina struck. NOVA investigates the fatal flaws in New Orleans’ levees and the huge challenge posed by protecting and rebuilding the city. As global temperatures rise, are killer storms like Katrina a growing threat?
Hurricane Katrina: The Storm that Drowned a City presents astonishing storm footage, suspenseful eyewitness testimony, and a penetrating analysis of what went wrong. Viewers relive the storm through the eyes of survivors and the stories of top engineers, hurricane experts, and emergency officials as they grappled with the arrival of the storm and its traumatic aftermath.
Special DVD features include: materials and activities for educators; a link to the NOVA Web site; scene selections; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired.
On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Letterboxed.
Amazon.com:
The narration is melodramatic, some of the interviews feel stagy--but the footage of Hurrican Katrina and its horrendous aftermath is staggering. Hurrican Katrina - The Storm That Drowned a City, a NOVA special, begins a year earlier, when a team of scientists created a computer simulation of the destructive effect a powerful storm could have on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Though local officials took it seriously, the federal response was skeptical, and little was done to strengthen the city's protection. Using a combination of remarkable video of the developing storm and interviews with scientists, city residents (black and white), and member of the Army Corps of Engineers, Hurrican Katrina builds a compelling story of the disaster as it unfolded. Sophisticated graphics explain how hurricanes form and how the levees failed. The special touches lightly on the possibility that global warming may be exacerbating the intensity of hurricanes, but shies away from the political storm of the meager federal response to the devastation of New Orleans. The result is a vivid, detailed description of the natural disaster, but an incomplete portrait of the social one. --Bret Fetzer
Average Rating: 
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- Not what I was expectingNova really let me down on this one. This DVD tells us a lot of what we already knew from watching ... Read More
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- Hurricane Katrina - A brief perspectiveA nice clean documentary.
I expected a little more either from a historical perspective ... Read More
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- Clear and FactualThis DVD presentation, previously seen on public television, is an excellent review of an awful disaster, ... Read More
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- Well BalancedThis is a well balanced movie about the storm, how it was tracked by the scientists and how the flooding of ... Read More
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- An excellent look at Katrina and the flooding of New OrleansNova's look at The Storm That Drowned a City is by and large an excellent study of Hurricane Katrina, concentrating ... Read More
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