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The Great Flood

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

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The Great Flood

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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 Full Review Paul de Barros Seattle Times Somehow it feels wrong to enjoy a story about so much suffering. Rated: 3.5/4 Mar 20, 2014 Full Review 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 Full Review Kathy Fennessy Seattle Film Blog The Great Flood offers a meditative, purposefully Brechtian examination of destruction. Jan 13, 2023 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member I am Going see This movie with my Mom? Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/13/23 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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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
Producer
Bill Morrison, Phyllis Oyama
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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