Name: NOVA
Genre: Documentary

NOVA Episode 33.07 Storm That Drowned a City

NOVA Episode 33.07 Storm That Drowned a City

Episode Premiere

November 22, 2005

Genre

Documentary

Production Company

GBH

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

Information

Episode Premiere

November 22, 2005

Genre

Documentary

Period

1974 -

Production Co

GBH

Distributor

PBS

Official Site

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

Cast and Crew

Director

Peter Chinn, Caroline Penry-Davey

Screenwriter

Peter Chinn, Caroline Penry-Davey

Additional Cast

Neil Ross

Synopsis

In less than 12 hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Louisiana coast, leading to more than a thousand deaths and transforming a city of over one million into an uninhabitable swamp. NOVA investigates the science of Hurricane Katrina, combining a penetrating analysis of what went wrong with a dramatic, minute-by-minute unfolding of events told through eyewitness testimony. What made this storm so deadly? Will powerful hurricanes like Katrina strike more often? How accurately did scientists predict its impact, and why did the levees protecting New Orleans fail?