‘The Great Flood’: Hauntingly Poetic Documentary Recounts the Worst Flood in U.S. History
Poignant
Bill Morrison’s documentary chronicles the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 by stitching together lost footage of the historic disaster into an elegiac visual poem.
In the coming months, much ink will be spilled over Noah, filmmaker Darren Aronofsky’s $130 million religious epic depicting chapters 6-9 in the Book of Genesis—a catastrophic 370-day flood that God unleashed upon the earth to punish “the wickedness of man,” with the aim of beginning anew using the microcosm...
