When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)

Saddened and outraged in equal measure by both the scale of the disaster and the slow, inept and disorganised response to the emergency on the part of the government instrumentalities charged with co-ordinating the recovery effort, Lee's expansive documentary presents an impassioned portrait of New Orleans and its beleaguered citizens in the wake of the fearsome destruction inflicted by Hurrican Katrina on August 29, 2005.