(HBO Max) : While older, Spike Lee’s iconic four-part documentary remains a primary source for comprehensive footage and personal narratives of the devastation.

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This four-part HBO documentary acts as a definitive visual record. Lee eschews traditional narration, allowing New Orleans residents, politicians, and engineers to speak directly to the camera. The film explicitly frames the disaster not as an unavoidable natural phenomenon, but as a man-made failure of engineering and civil responsibility.