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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Inside the Megastorm takes viewers moment by moment through Hurricane Sandy, its impacts and the future of storm protection. Through first person accounts from those who survived, and from experts and scientists, Inside the Megastorm gives scientific context to a new breed of storms.
3) Gummo
Series
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
This is a haunting portrait of life in small-town America. Through a collection of dreamlike and devastating images, Korine offers a glimpse of Xenia, Ohio, a world existing in the aftermath of a tornado. Survivors of one natural disaster, the town's inhabitants live each day in a numbing atmosphere of physical and emotional destruction.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In this epic adventure thriller, a family struggles to reunite in a post-apocalyptic American landscape: a world of empty cities, local militias and heroic freedom fighters, where every single piece of technology-computers, planes, cars, phones, even lights-has mysteriously blacked out-forever. A grand romantic saga about family-not just the family born into, but the family chosen. A swashbuckling journey of hope and rebirth, seen through the eyes...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
[DVD].
Language
English
Description
When all technology and electricity has suddenly and mysteriously blacked out, what's left is a post-apocalyptic landscape inhabited by ruthless paramilitary groups, heroic freedom fighters, and a family struggling to survive. Seen through the eyes of the fiercely determined young woman, Charlie Matheson, it follows a band of rebels including Charlie₂s mother Rachel and Uncle Miles as they face danger in their attempts to overthrow the Militia,...
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
[Widescreen format].
Language
English
Description
Directed by Spike Lee, this two-part, four hour documentary revisits New Orleans five years after Katrina, and four years since the premiere of Lee's landmark, triple Emmy-winning HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. Featuring many of the principals seen in the first documentary, the new film opens with February's celebratory Super Bowl parade before delving into such issues as relocation, rebuilding, mental-health concerns,...
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen (16:9) format.
Language
English
Description
Four acts document distinct perspectives on the pivotal events that preceded and followed Katrina's passage through New Orleans, a catastrophe during which the divide between race and class lines has never been more pronounced.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Tracking the resilience of the Long Beach Island, NJ community for one year as they rebuild after 2012's Hurricane Sandy. Using a mixture of verité, first-person accounts, and the residents' own footage the film is a poetic documentation of a shore community as they battle local politics, cope with personal tragedy, and band together in the face of transition.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Trouble the water takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. It's a redemptive tale of two self-described street hustlers who become heroes-two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall-twenty-four year old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts is turning her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbors...
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