Spike Lee Series About Hurricane Katrina Among Docs Planned For Netflix In 2025
deadline.comSpike Lee‘s next joint for Netflix is called Katrina: Come Hell and High Water — one of three documentaries planned for the streamer in 2025.
Lee’s doc will revisit the hurricane that caused 1,392 fatalities and more than $100 billion in damages in 2005. The official logline for the doc set to drop in August says the “hurricane turned cataclysmic through human error and neglect.
Over the course of a gripping and emotional three episodes, the people of New Orleans recount their past, extoll their present and lean into the future of what they and their beloved city survived and have become 20 years later.
The series sets the stage for a tragedy — whose man-made elements expose the systemic governmental neglect that led to the city being defenseless in the face of the storm — and Katrina’s devastating impact that changed New Orleans irreparably.
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