“Trouble the Water”
Fury comes alive in this Oscar-nominated reconstruction of the terrors that ravaged a post-Katrina New Orleans. Told not through interviews or archival news clips but from the first-hand footage shot by a stranded family who scrambled as the water rose, the film offers an insider’s view of the submerged Ninth Ward. Turning away from the political rhetoric that filled the airwaves in the weeks and months following the storm, “Trouble the Water” takes us back into the uncertainty of the moment, as neighbors rallied together to find a way to safety.


