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If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Spike Lee released in USA on 23 august 2010 with Terence Blanchard

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010)

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
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Released in USA 23 august 2010
Length 4h15
Directed by
OriginUSA
Rating75% 3.7850453.7850453.7850453.7850453.785045

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise is a 2010 documentary film directed by Spike Lee, as a follow-up to his 2006 HBO documentary film, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. The film looks into the proceeding years since Hurricane Katrina struck the New Orleans and Gulf Coast region, and also focuses on the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and its effect on the men and women who work along the shores of the gulf. Many of the participants in Levees were also featured in this documentary.

It won a Peabody Award in 2010 "for ambitiously chronicling one of the hugest disasters in American history, interrogating the well-known narratives and investigating other stories that could have easily fallen through the cracks."

Synopsis

Featured in the documentary are stories about New Orleans' rebuilding efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, including the shuttering and demolition of four public housing projects in the city. The documentary also goes into the story of how the Federal Bureau of Investigation looked into allegations of brutality and cover-ups within the New Orleans Police Department.

Actors

Terence Blanchard
Sean Penn
Wendell Pierce
Brad Pitt
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