Fatal Flood
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.
- Year : 2001
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- Genre : Documentary
- Studio : Steward/Gazit Productions
- Keyword : mississippi river, racism, flood, american experience, reconstruction era
- Director : Chana Gazit
- Cast : Liev Schreiber
