Floodlines

The Atlantic

The story of an unnatural disaster.

  • 5 minutes 49 seconds
    Introducing Holy Week

    Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone.

    The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be the stitching used to tie together a narrative of victory? The week that followed his killing was one of the most fiery, disruptive, and revolutionary, and is nearly forgotten. Over the course of eight episodes, Holy Week brings forward the stories of the activists who turned heartbreak into action, families scorched by chaos, and politicians who worked to contain the grief. Seven days diverted the course of a social revolution and set the stage for modern clashes over voting rights, redlining, critical race theory, and the role of racial unrest in today’s post–George Floyd reckoning.

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    28 February 2023, 4:00 pm
  • 55 minutes 17 seconds
    The Wake

    Part VIII: Water, like history, repeats itself.

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    12 March 2020, 3:47 am
  • 30 minutes 16 seconds
    Destiny

    Part VII: People try to come home. But does home want them anymore?

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    12 March 2020, 3:45 am
  • 36 minutes 58 seconds
    Reckoning

    Part VI: How could the levees have failed?

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    12 March 2020, 3:44 am
  • 31 minutes 26 seconds
    Exodus

    Part V: A hero arrives. But not the one everyone expected.

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    12 March 2020, 3:43 am
  • 25 minutes 47 seconds
    The Bridge

    Part IV: Rumor becomes tragedy.

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    12 March 2020, 3:42 am
  • 29 minutes 27 seconds
    Through the Looking Glass

    Part III: A universe of rumor and misinformation plays out on television.

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    12 March 2020, 3:41 am
  • 24 minutes 32 seconds
    Come Sunday

    Part II: In New Orleans, the disaster wasn’t the hurricane. The disaster was what happened after.

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    12 March 2020, 3:40 am
  • 32 minutes 49 seconds
    Antediluvian

    Part I: It all started long before a hurricane named Katrina.

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    12 March 2020, 3:39 am
  • 5 minutes 8 seconds
    Richard

    A preview of the show.

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    3 March 2020, 10:30 pm
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