When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
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Cast & Crew
Spike Lee
Kanye West
Wendell Pierce
Kathleen Blanco
Sean Penn
Ray Nagin
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Synopsis
Documentary revolving around New Orleans following the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina.
Director
Spike Lee
Cast
Kanye West
Wendell Pierce
Kathleen Blanco
Sean Penn
Ray Nagin
Harry Belafonte
Michael Eric Dyson
Soledad O'brien
Reverend Al Sharpton
Wynton Marsalis
Terence Blanchard
Crew
Judy Aley
Arielle Amsalem
Walter Anderson
Damani Andrews
Les Arceneaux
Nathan Aronson
Patrick Barnes
Paul Beard
Harry Belafonte
Sasha Bell
James Blanchard
Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard
Terence Blanchard
Kathleen Blanco
Helio Bodini
Mark Booker
Ethan Borsuk
Shaka Brookes
Michael Brown
Eleanor Burke
Joseph Butler
Grace Callahan
Sal Camacho
Dakota Campbell
Carmen Cardenas
Brian Carlson
Shari Carpenter
Robin Chambless
Bayou Chandler
Michael Charbonnet
Cliff Charles
Cliff Charles
Bob Chefalas
Steven Chew
Sayeeda Clarke
Mahalia Cohen
Mario Costanzo
Lamont Crawford
Colin Cumberbatch
Brendan Daw
Stuart Deutsch
Kerwin Devonish
Michael Eric Dyson
Jeff Ellerbee
Michael Ellis
Dasaw Floyd
Wilton Ford
Gabriel Fortunato
Pyare Fortunato
Lowell Friedman
Geeta Gandbhir
Cesar Garza
Chris Gleaton
Jacqueline Glover
Mary Gray
Nick Hahn
Kwabena Haitar
Amy Hall
Iain Hall
Jeffrey Haupt
Ruby C Haupt
Penelope Helmer
Charles R Hunt
George Ingmire
Ken Ishii
Jonathan Jahnke
Robert Jean
Bret Johnson
Marquette Jones
Brian Kamerzel
Jason Lampkin
George Lara
Dawn Larsen
R Scott Lebill
Cinque Lee
David Lee
Spike Lee
Yvette Leplace
Tara Linn
Dan Liu
Larry Loewinger
Jerome Loston
Tommy Maddox-upshaw
Tommy Maddox-upshaw
Travis Madison
Sonia Malfa
Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis
Tamara Martial
David Mccarthy
Matthew Mcclellan
Safiya Mcclinton
Parish Mclean
Little Buddy Medina
Katherine Miller
John Mmahat
Lucy Molloy
Amanda Morrison
Doug Murray
Ray Nagin
Clayton Nepveux
Sheila Nevins
Matthew Newman
Nancy Novack
Soledad O'brien
Daniel Oh
Jonathan Parham
Heather L Parish
Sean Penn
Eden Marie Picazo
Wendell Pierce
Michael Pinckney
Sam Pollard
Sam Pollard
Natalia Quintana
Nicole Ramirez
Chris Ramon
Dee Rees
Leonard Reynolds
John Richie
Butch Robinson
Jonathan Robinson
Kenny Rodriguez
Ben Rogers
Fred Rosenberg
Chris Saddler
Ricardo Sarmiento
Carmen L Scott
Michelle Shannon
Reverend Al Sharpton
Roland Shay
Daniel Sheridan
Ken Shibata
Yvonne Shirley
Pierson Silver
Andre Singleton
Michele Song
Barry Steadman
Ivan Strasburg
Waris Supangong
Jeff Taylor
Jon Thomas
Chris Tiffany
Tichafa Tongogara
Allen Touissant
Jeff Trent
Jeff Trent
Freddy Turner
Marcus Turner
Marco Umana
Aslihan Unaldi
Diego Velasco
Lynda Vincent
Steve Visscher
Bo Walker
Kanye West
Charles Wiggins
Randy Wilkens
Randy Wilkins
Ben Williams
Jenna Williams
Wise Wolfe
Alex Wright
Nicole Wright
Alan Zaleski
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Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the 2007 Pare Lorentz Award by the International Documentary Associatin (IDA).
Winner of the Horizons Documentary Prize award at the 2006 Venice International Film Festival.
Winner of three 2007 Emmy Awards including Outstanding Directing For Nonfiction Programming (Spike Lee), Exceptional Merit In Nonfiction Filmmaking, and Outstanding Picture Editing For Nonfiction Programming (Sam Pollard, Geeta Gandbhir, & Nancy Novack). Also nominated for an additional three 2007 Emmy Awards, by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Aired in United States 2006
Aired in United States 2007
Aired in United States August 21, 2006
Aired in United States August 22, 2006
Aired in United States December 19, 2006
Picked up to production for the 2005-2006 season.