S01E01 We Gonna Ride It Out Like We Always Do
As Katrina closes in, officials issue a voluntary evacuation order that turns mandatory hours before landfall. With no way out, thousands hunker down.
Stranded in floodwater or held against their will at the Superdome, survivors face dire conditions — and no help from the federal government for days.
Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, survivors reflect on the disastrous storm that forever changed their lives and the systemic inequities it exposed.