The Great Flood

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The Great Flood

2012

1h 16m

Documentary

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

Mark Feeney

Boston Globe

06/12/2014

2.5/4

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.

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Paul de Barros

Seattle Times

03/20/2014

3.5/4

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

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

01/30/2014

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.

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Mattie Lucas

From the Front Row

08/07/2019

3/4

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.

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Pat Padua

Spectrum Culture

08/31/2018

1.5/5

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.

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Kathy Fennessy

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

08/22/2017

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

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02/03/2014

I am Going see This movie with my Mom?

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01/09/2014

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!!!

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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