Ray Nagin

Acclaimed director Spike Lee presents this four-part HBO documentary event that recounts one of the United States' most profound natural disasters--the devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005--through words and images.

The day before the storm makes landfall, 24-year-old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Roberts turns a Hi-8 video camera on herself, her husband Scott and their neighbors stranded in New Orleans. With no means to evacuate, she records their harrowing ordeal when the nearby levee fails and deadly floodwaters engulf their home and community.