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The documentary is based on news video footage and still photos of Katrina and its aftermath, interspersed with interviews. Interviewees include politicians, journalists, historians, engineers, and many residents of various parts of New Orleans and the surrounding areas, who give first hand accounts of their experiences with the levee failures ...
Direct Relief also responded to the disaster, delivering more than $47 million in medical aid and about $4.6 million in cash grants in an effort to help rebuild the affected areas of Texas ...
The disaster recovery response to Hurricane Katrina in late 2005 included U.S. federal government agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Coast Guard (USCG), state and local-level agencies, federal and National Guard soldiers, non-governmental organizations, charities, and private individuals.
The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2008 and an Emmy Award for best informational program in 2010. It won the Grand Jury Prize Documentar at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival; [2] the Grand Jury Award, the Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights, and the Working Films Award at the 2008 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival; and the Special Jury Prize ...
On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast -- leaving its mark as one of the strongest storms to ever impact the U.S. coast. Devastation ranged from Louisiana to Alabama to ...
Katrina Babies details the close-knit families and vibrant communities of New Orleans whose lives were uprooted by the 2005 disaster. These American children who were airlifted out of the rising waters, evacuated from their homes to refugee-like centers, or placed in makeshift, temporary living situations, have been neglected.
The black community bore the brunt of Katrina's wrath in many ways, and the data shows the help that's been doled out since hasn't been equal. Post-Katrina, blacks have been left out of recovery ...
Discussion of the recovery efforts for Hurricane Katrina took a back seat to terrorism and Iraq in his 2006 State of the Union Address. In that speech, Bush did not mention any human suffering caused by the storm or its aftermath and did not acknowledge any shortcomings in his administration's response.