This video, featuring Rising Tide author John Barry and footage from Pare Lorentz’ classic film, The River, explores the havoc wrought by New Orleans leaders when they dynamited the Mississippi levee in St. Bernard Parish during the great flood of 1927. It appears in CGEE’s Mississippi Multimedia Gallery (http://www.hamline.edu/education/cgee/missrivergallery/) and Waters to the Sea (http://www.hamline.edu/education/cgee/waters-to-sea.html) education programs