2010
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2010
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If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

Summary In 2006, director Spike Lee created an astonishing record of the cataclysmic effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans with his epic award-winning documentary, When the Levees Broke. Five years later, Lee returns to New Orleans, to see how the ambitious plans to reinvent the Crescent City were playing out. He finds a patchw...

Documentary

Directed By: Spike Lee

2010
Home Box Office (HBO)

2010
Home Box Office (HBO)

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

Name: If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010-08-23
Rating: 72
Cast: Calvin Mackie, Mitch Landrieu, Jacques Morial, Fred Johnson, Tanya Harris

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 4 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Spike Lee

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The A.V. Club

Jun 22, 2020

Ultimately, If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don’t Rise is a documentary about the myriad ways that the poor stay poor, and the way our society marginalizes them by reducing them to numbers on a balance sheet instead of people with their own unique stories to tell and their own network of friends and family who love and rely on them.

By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW

Variety

Jun 22, 2020

It is, frankly, a lot to absorb — and would risk crumbling under the weight of Lee’s ambition were it not for the second gut punch to the region that BP’s horrifying blunder delivered.

By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Jun 22, 2020

It was created under different circumstances and it is, perhaps inevitably, a less powerful work than “When the Levees Broke,” more diffuse in its storytelling and more uncertain in its point of view.

By Mike Hale FULL REVIEW

Los Angeles Times

Jun 22, 2020

Lee has sacrificed some clarity for inclusiveness; this is the document as monument, artful and rough by turns, and determined to be as big as its subject.

By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW

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Production Company HBO Documentary Films, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

Release Date Aug 23, 2010

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Awards

Primetime Emmy Awards

• 2 Nominations

Black Reel Awards

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Peabody Awards

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise

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Calvin Mackie

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Mitch Landrieu

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Jacques Morial

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Fred Johnson

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Tanya Harris

Self - Community Organizer

Ray Nagin

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Tracie L. Washington

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Garland Robinette

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Kathleen Blanco

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Douglas Brinkley

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M. Endesha Juakali

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Phyllis Montana LeBlanc

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Ned Sublette

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Robert Tannen

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Karen Carter

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Ben Marble

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Mary Howell

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Anderson Cooper

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Brad Pitt

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Russel Honoré

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