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National Geographic - Inside Hurricane Katrina
from: National Geographic Video
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792274759
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 079227475X
Label: National Geographic Video
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: National Geographic Video
MPN: DG75142D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: National Geographic Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 17, 2006
Running Time: 92 minutes
Studio: National Geographic Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Editorial Review:
From the creators of critically acclaimed Inside 9/11 comes another powerful journalistic account, Inside Hurricane Katrina. Go beyond the round-the-clock news coverage for a comprehensive look behind the devastation caused by nature's fury and human error. How did this happen? Can it happen again? Why weren't emergency personnel fully ready to respond to a real disaster? Using comprehensive analysis of events, hours of government audio tapes, and personal interviews, National Geographic takes viewers into the eye of Katrina to uncover the decisions and circumstances that determined the fate of the Gulf residents.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Remembering Hurricane Katrina
I myself was a resident of New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Having just moved there in January of 2005 to start graduate school, I learned to love everything about the city (with the exception of the crime, traffic, and racial indifference). Literally, everything about it--the culture, the music, the people--I loved it. Even with the things I didn't appreciate, I was rather content and happy to be there. Fast-forward almost nine months later, I was watching the place I lived become submerged ... Read More
Rating:  - katrina up close and personal
After having spent the time between Christmas and New Year's on a mission trip to the 9th Ward, I was curious to see photos etc of the area during the storm and immedidatley thereafer. This DVD showed many areas of New Orelans and Mississippi and the devestation left behind. It gave a good background of the government's response (or lack thereof), however, it seemed to use the same photo's over and over again, instead of new ones. Overall I found it very informative and would recommend.
Rating: - Impact New Orleans--But Little Information Re Other Regions
Aired in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this National Geograph program does an exceptional job of detailing the disaster, both natural and man-made, that overcame the city of New Orleans. Unfortunately, it also does an extremely poor job of describing the disaster that struck south Mississippi.
In terms of natural disaster, New Orleans was actually on the weaker western side of the storm. It took a glancing rather than a direct blow from Hurricane Katrina, a fact that ... Read More
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