We will watch “Trouble the Water.” This film takes you inside Hurricane Katrina. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall — just blocks away from the French Quarter but far from the New Orleans that most tourists knew. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, is turning her new video camera on herself and her Ninth Ward neighbors trapped in the city. “It’s going to be a day to remember,” Kim declares.

Incorporating home footage shot by Ms. Roberts — who is trapped with her husband in the Ninth ward — directors/producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal weave this insider’s view of Katrina with a devastating portrait of the hurricane’s aftermath. “Trouble the Water” takes audiences on a journey that is by turns heart-stopping, infuriating, inspiring and empowering. It is not only about the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina but about the underlying issues that remained when the flood waters receded — failing public schools, record high levels of incarceration, poverty, structural racism, and lack of government accountability.