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No one does righteous anger like Spike Lee. If there's one thing that marks the director's work, it's that sense that something is about to pop, no matter the topic. Then, all you can do is sit back and ponder the question of "How did it come to that?" That's why Lee was the perfect choice to create HBO's monumental documentary, "When the Levees Broke," which airs again tonight. Today marks the official anniversary of when those levees broke in New Orleans, creating a disaster never before seen in this country. In Lee's hands, "When the Levees Broke" doesn't seem...

I'm watching Spike Lee's documentary about Hurricane Katrina with my mom. She's finally visiting since the storm hit a year ago. She lives in a FEMA trailer in the now gray-from-destruction yard in front of her broken home in the New Orleans neighborhood of Gentilly, next to the elementary school where she taught, which has remained closed. "When the Levees Broke" is hard to watch. It's hard to take. The anger. The sadness. All over again. What's it like to live in New Orleans now? "I'm sitting there thinking you know what?" a woman named Phyllis tells Lee. "If you...

Filmmaker Spike Lee on Tuesday announced he is making a film for HBO about the post-Hurricane Katrina flooding in New Orleans, and said he wouldn't be shocked if conspiracy theories of intentional government involvement in the flooding proved true. Lee's appearance on CNN, to promote his new co-authored memoir/biography, Spike Lee: That's My Story and I'm Sticking To It, followed a report on the rumors circulating among evacuees that the government somehow engineered the flooding of the largely black and poor Ninth Ward section of New Orleans. CNN's report stressed that there is no evidence anyone caused the flooding on...

Spike Lee is to produce and direct a documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for HBO, Variety reports. Provisionally entitled When the Levee Broke, early indications suggest it will continue Lee's tradition of polemical films addressing the US's fraught race relations. Lee has never been one to shy away from controversy, with films such as Do The Right Thing, about a race riot in Brooklyn; Jungle Fever, taking a contentious look at mixed-race love affairs, and his eponymous Malcolm X biopic. When the Levee Broke is currently waiting to go into production while Lee completes work on thriller The...

NEW YORK — Several weeks after Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans, HBO documentary executives were stumped. How to respond on film to something so monumental? "We were in a meeting one day and I said, `I guess we'll have to let Katrina go,'" said Sheila Nevins, president of HBO Documentary and Family. "Then, literally within the hour, Spike called. It was like, `Eureka!'" Spike Lee was quickly signed to chronicle the storm and its aftermath in New Orleans. The first half of Lee's heartbreaking film, "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," debuts Monday. The four-hour documentary marks...

Tears marked his 70-year-old cheeks as Arthur Brown, leaning on a walking stick, walked from the film that sought to tell his story. "I think it's a great movie," said Brown, on Spike Lee's documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. "I'm mad," he said. "We lost everything. I've worked all my life - minimum-wage jobs - and raised eight children. Now I've got nothing. My wife is 65. What little savings we had is gone. FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] hasn't been any help. It's just not right." Brown was among thousands of survivors of...

Bush the villain of Katrina film Bob Dart August 21, 2006 Tears marked his 70-year-old cheeks as Arthur Brown, leaning on a walking stick, walked from the film that sought to tell his story. "I think it's a great movie," said Brown, on Spike Lee's documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. "I'm mad," he said. "We lost everything. I've worked all my life - minimum-wage jobs - and raised eight children. Now I've got nothing. My wife is 65. What little savings we had is gone. FEMA [the Federal Emergency Management Agency] hasn't been any help....