Invites us to step into the shoes of people who the government forgot, and demands that we refuse to do the same.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2019

The best of the Katrina documentaries thus far, to my mind, is Trouble the Water.

| Nov 5, 2018

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 24, 2011

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 18, 2011

A documentary that changed direction, like a weather front, in the midst of being made.

| Aug 15, 2011

Timely, relevant, and touching documentary that needs to be seen.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 27, 2011

The most affecting footage of Hurricane Katrina ever seen comes from an amateur camcorder bought on the street for twenty bucks.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 12, 2010

It's a view of the disaster that no amount of news coverage would ever manage to capture.

| Sep 8, 2009

An utterly magnificent film, one that is as hard to forget as it is to ignore. As such, it is destined to live a long life, in peoples' minds and on scholars' shelves.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 14, 2009

Intensely gripping footage of the calamitous Hurricane Katrina and the compelling story of survivors Kimberly and Scott Roberts make this a must see documetary.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 27, 2009

Trouble the Water is a truly gobsmacking document, but it's Kimberly Roberts who carries the film.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2009

'God's gonna trouble the water,' goes the chorus from the African-American spiritual that gives Trouble the Water its title, but no deity is to blame for the tide of bureaucratic bungling and inhumanity the movie reveals.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 13, 2009

The person at the centre emerges as a force of nature unto herself. Meet, and prepare to be inspired by, Kimberly Rivers Roberts.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 12, 2009

Essential, startling and distressing insight into what it was like to be in the eye of the Katrina storm if you were a poor, black resident of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans on Monday August 29 2005.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Dec 5, 2008

Trouble The Water tells a fascinating story with some amazing imagery, shot when the floods were at their height, but somehow loses something in the translation.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 5, 2008

The footage - edited and augmented by Michael Moore's collaborators Tia Lessin and Carl Deal - is unpolished, but the stories and commentary are as inspirational as they are harrowing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008

Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's movie about Hurricane Katrina is, in its way, quite as powerful as Spike Lee's massive documentary on the subject.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008

I could call the film an important document, but it's far more rowdy and vital, and amazingly unpretentious, than that makes it sound.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2008

Trouble the Water employs Kim Roberts' startling camcorder footage to reveal how little New Orleans prepared its citizens for the coming disaster.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2008

Later, unfortunately, the film's energy drains like the waters, leaving a wrack of tired folk wisdoms and ear-injuring rap songs.

| Dec 5, 2008