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Trouble the Water Vividly Mixes Katrina, Race

Documentary traces one couple's story through New Orleans disaster

By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 21, 2008 5:50 PM CDT

(Newser) – Trouble the Water, a new documentary, is ostensibly about Hurricane Katrina, centered around home-video footage shot during the disaster by a resident of New Orleans’ Ninth Ward. But the film, which frames Kimberly Roberts’ footage within a larger context, transcends that one event to put... Read full story »

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