Season 1 – Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time

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Melissa S I am from St. Bernard Parish, and even 20 years later, Katrina still lives with me. The pain, the loss, the betrayal—it never goes away. So many of us were abandoned, mistreated, and failed by the very people who were supposed to protect us. Things could have—should have—been handled differently. That’s why it cuts so deep to see this documentary twist our tragedy into nothing more than a racial battle. That is a disgrace. I knew people—good people—who died because of this city’s carelessness, because those in power didn’t do their jobs, and to this day, New Orleans officials continue to fail their citizens. The outrage should be directed where it belongs—at the mayor, at FEMA’s director, at every person in authority who had the power to save lives but chose negligence instead. They are the ones who should have been exposed. Rest in peace to every soul we lost, victims not only of a storm, but of a system that abandoned us. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/22/25 Full Review Keith K Really worth watching. I was young when this happened and couldn’t understand the scope of it. Or have an educated opinion on the politics of it. Wow. Absolutely mind bending to see tragedy unveil like that and the incompetence of the response. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/19/25 Full Review Nate S Racists are triggered once again lmao. The storm didn't last that long but the aftermath did. I believe it covers alot of the issues very well or well enough for 5 episodes. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/15/25 Full Review Adrienne C This isn’t about the storm- it’s about social justice and complaining about lack of equity. I volunteers with the recovery efforts so I was excited to watch about the storm. The first two episodes were good. After that, it’s not worth watching. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 08/12/25 Full Review Michael P The hurricane was white people’s fault. The violence was also white people’s fault. Even though New Orleans is 56% black, white people are to blame once again. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 08/08/25 Full Review Katelyn D I thought this was really really really well done. It was really impactful. It was really informational and it really showed to how it wasn’t about. The fact that people didn’t evacuate or that they weren’t prepared for the storm. It was something that was so catastrophic that that levee broke after the fact that it flooded everybody and the fact that they really did hide it from the rest of us in the country because we all saw what we saw on the news which was them in the French Quarter and everything being totally finewhen in reality, it was an absolute hell for these people, and they were treated as if it was their fault or like they weren’t deserving of assistance or help in something that was 110% not their fault nor were they able to see something like that happening. You can’t look at a hurricane and say ‘oh you know what I bet that storm is going to put a hole in the levee wall in the middle of this area’ because that’s not something that should’ve happened. I get really annoyed when I see people saying oh yeah they had the chance to leave and they didn’t and they said they were too poor to leave, but they had cars in their driveway? Look, first of all many people of all incomes have to have vehicles to get to and from work or to and from wherever they need to be getting their needed Dailey survival stuff, but also if they were poor, they don’t have somewhere to flee too. They don’t have anywhere to go, and it wasn’t really anything that was being offered to them to go somewhere for free or something, and many of them that was all they had. I have lived in the south before and I do know that during hurricanes there are many people that do bunker down and just prepare their properties and themselves for a storm instead of leaving and while that may not be a great decision in some cases, in other cases it’s the only decision. Elderly, handicapped, sick, poor, and disabled people all stuck let alone the storm itself didn’t do that flooding. It was the levee breaking and so it was a very, very quick flooding and a very, very sad thing to watch. I’m happy that this was released because I think I learned so much more about it, and I feel absolutely awful for not knowing. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/05/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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