"Katrina 2005," a documentary series in the eye of the hurricane

Any documentary about Katrina faces a double comparison. With Spike Lee 's film When the Levees Broke , a cry of anger shot in the months following the tragedy; and with David Simon's series Treme , both joyful and twilight, a pinnacle of fictional reality, a celebration of New Orleans as the ideal of the plural American city that deserves to be saved. A monumental diptych, as if, even twenty years later, there was nothing more to add...

Built on thousands of hours of archival footage, news reports, and local camcorder footage from the 2005 hurricane, Hurricane Katrina : Race Against Time , a five-part documentary directed by Traci A. Curry (Oscar nominee for Attica) and produced by Ryan Coogler (the new studio darling behind Black Panther and