Liev Schreiber
Narrator
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys, and the Percys against themselves. A dramatic story of greed, power and race during one of America's greatest natural disasters.
Homepage | https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood/ |
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Release Date | 2001-04-16 |
Runtime | 60m |
Directors | David Steward, Chana Gazit |
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Writers | John M Barry, Chana Gazit |