Fatal flood

Resource Information

The work Fatal flood represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of San Diego Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Fatal flood

Statement of responsibility

produced, directed and written by Chana Gazit

Contributor

• PBS Home Video
• Gazit, Chana
• Schreiber, Liev

Subject

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• African Americans -- Mississippi | Greenville -- History -- 20th century
• Documentary television programs
• Floods -- Mississippi | Greenville
• Forced labor -- Mississippi | Greenville -- History -- 20th century
• Greenville (Miss.) -- History -- 20th century
• Greenville (Miss.) -- Race relations | History -- 20th century
• Greenville (Miss.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
• Mississippi River -- History -- 20th century

Genre

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

eng

Summary

"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."

Member of

• American experience (Television program)

Cataloging source

EMU

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Co-directed and edited by David Steward ; cinematography, Joel Shapiro, Terry Hopkins, James Callanan ; music, Michael Bacon

Language note

Closed-captioned

PerformerNote

Narrator: Liev Schreiber

Runtime

60

Series statement

American experience

Technique

live action