As the fifth
anniversary of the day Hurricane Katrina turned the Gulf Coast upside
down approaches -- the actual day is next Sunday -- TV offers some
amazing documentaries on the storm, its aftermath and its impact on us
all.Here's capsule reviews of the best, including Spike Lee's amazing
return to New Orleans:If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise, airs at 9 tonight and 9 p.m. Tuesday, HBO: Like a band-aid ripped from a still-tender wound, Spike Lee’s four-hour documentary about the five years after Katrina’s impact pokes at every way in which the attempt to recover from the hurricane’s damage went wrong. From harsh assessments of former Mayor C. Ray Nagin (one on camera voice called him the worst mayor in the city’s near-300-year history), to allegations the police let a man die to cover a botched shooting, Lee’s unblinking cameras detail the awful struggle toward rebuilding, set to mournful score by jazz master and Nawlins native Terence Blanchard.
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