Fatal Flood

Fatal Flood — Plot

In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from Cairo, Illinois to New Orleans, inundating hundreds of towns, killing as many as a thousand people and leaving a million homeless. In Greenville, Mississippi, efforts to contain the river pitted the majority black population against an aristocratic plantation family, the Percys, and the Percys against themselves. A dramatic story of greed, power and race during one of America's greatest natural disasters.

• Release date
• April 16, 2001
• Runtime
• 60 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Chana Gazit

Fatal Flood — Cast

Liev Schreiber Narrator (voice)