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'Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time' Review

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Traci Curry looks back at the 2005 disaster.

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Christopher Campbell
Jul 27, 2025
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In recent years, historical docuseries have catered to nostalgia for major news stories of the past. Maybe nostalgia isn’t the right word for all of these anniversary-focused looks back at disasters, tragedies, and criminal cases, even if some of them now seem relatively quaint next to what feels to be much more regular occurrences of violence, weather-…

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