The Great Flood

2012

1h 16m

Documentary

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94%

Tomatometer

16 Reviews

47%

Audience Score

100+ Ratings

After the Mississippi River flood in 1927, many rural Southern blacks migrated north and created new music.

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Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

Having taken the flood out of time, Morrison plants it firmly in space - or as firm as any dreamscape can be. He's made a sort of travelog, and it's destination is inundation.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jun 12, 2014

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Paul de Barros

Seattle Times

Somehow it feels wrong to enjoy a story about so much suffering.

Rated: 3.5/4

Mar 20, 2014

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

Most of all it's a unique, highly immersing audio-visual experience that would be as at home in a museum as it is in a movie theater - and that's a first-order compliment.

Jan 30, 2014

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Kathy Fennessy

Seattle Film Blog

The Great Flood offers a meditative, purposefully Brechtian examination of destruction.

Jan 13, 2023

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

Has a remarkably keen sense of time and place, and Morrison immerses us in a world that feels remarkably similar to our own, even through 87 years of film dirt and grain.

Rated: 3/4

Aug 7, 2019

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Pat Padua

Spectrum Culture

Comes not to praise history but to bury it in layers of prestige, the disaster's surviving documenters in the blues not even given a chance to be heard.

Rated: 1.5/5

Aug 31, 2018

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Audience Member

I am Going see This movie with my Mom?

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

It's times like this that you wish you could give a film zero stars. There's no purpose here. The "film" is just spliced together poorly preserves video of the Mississippi River flood of 1927. And it's not helped in anyway by the most annoyingly horrific score ever to be put to film. Ugh! Run away from this one!!!

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Bill Morrison

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Bill Morrison

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Phyllis Oyama

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Bill Morrison

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Synopsis

After the Mississippi River flood in 1927, many rural Southern blacks migrated north and created new music.

Director: Bill Morrison
Production Co: Hypnotic Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $9.9K
Runtime: 1h 16m

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