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Katrina: Come Hell and High Water

Katrina: Come Hell and High Water

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Katrina: Come Hell and High Water

2025

1 Seasons

3 Episodes

6.2(19 votes)

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Overview

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, survivors reflect on the disastrous storm that forever changed their lives and the systemic inequities it exposed.

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Message Pictures

40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks

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Creative team

Showrunner: Spike Lee
Sam Pollard
Produced by: Alisa Payne

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