Product Description

Studio: Pbs Release Date: 05/04/2009 Run time: 120 minutes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24818 in DVD
• Brand: PBS
• Released on: 2007-04-03
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Formats: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 120 minutes

Customer Reviews

My first review
This is the best thing out there on New Orleans. If you have any interest in New Orleans - why we cook like we do, dance like we do, play music like we do - this gives it to you. This is from the PBS series "American Experience" and PBS did it well. This is not a "Katrina" piece. Although Katrina factors in at the end, it is not the focus. Here the story starts with the folks that founded the City and moves through to Katrina. Along the way, it pulls no punches and includes the lowlights with the highlights. Even if you know New Orleans, there is plenty here that you will enjoy. I'm getting extras for gifts.

Also my first review
Hands down, the BEST documentary out there about New Orleans. For the first time ever, a documentary that's been produced by someone not from New Orleans that actually "gets" our city. It really has the voice of the people and demonstrates to the rest of the world why New Orleans is so unique and why it's so important for us to preserve this great American city. It even talks about tourists that come to New Orleans and only experience the 5 blocks of Bourbon Street then leave, never seeing the true beauty of this place. It explores the full history of the city, from its birth to the current situation and why the city was the way it was when Katrina struck. It also talks about different facets of the culture that makes it so distinct. Did I mention that it's the BEST New Orleans documentary out there? What are you waiting for? Buy it already!

Incredible
I was looking for a poignant documentary on the history of New Orleans, something that would saturate itself in the culture melting pot where there is no other like it. I found it with this DVD here. Amazing. Captured everything I was looking for and more.