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

Original title

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

Directed by

Spike Lee

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows up on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina a few years later. It also examines the 2010 BP oil spill and how it affected Gulf Coast workers.

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What happens

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 largest disasters in American history, interrogating the well-known narratives and investigating other stories that could have easily fallen through the cracks." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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