Live stream preview

Watch this video and more on OVID.tv

Watch this video and more on OVID.tv

Start your free trial

Already subscribed? Sign in

Come Hell or High Water

Water • 56m

Directed by Leah Mahan • Documentary • 2014 • 56 minutes

COME HELL OR HIGH WATER follows the painful but inspiring journey of Derrick Evans, a Boston teacher who returns to his native coastal Mississippi when the graves of his ancestors are bulldozed to make way for the sprawling city of Gulfport. Derrick is consumed by the effort to protect the community his great grandfather's grandfather settled as a former slave. He is on the verge of a breakthrough when Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast.

After years of restoration work to bring Turkey Creek back from the brink of death, the community gains significant federal support for cultural and ecological preservation. Derrick plans to return to Boston to rebuild the life he abandoned, but another disaster seals his fate as a reluctant activist. On the day Turkey Creek is featured in USA Today for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes.

Tags
african-american studies, american studies, americas, anthropology and archaeology, bioregions and habitat, black history, blackhistory2, bp rig explosion, bullfrog films, business, citizenship, come hell or high water, community, cultural and ethnic studies, cultural anthropology, democracy, derrick evans, doc, earth day, economics, environment, environment1, environmental anthropology, expository, gulf coast, gulfport, history, hurricane katrina, labor and economics, mississippi, ovid, ovid_ca, political philosophy, politics and political science, protecting the community, race and racism, s_0005, s_0041, s_0050, s_0065, s_0085, s_0090, s_0091, s_0237, s_0263, s_0279, s_0280, s_0288, s_0299, s_0306, s_0408, s_0597, slave graves bulldozed in mississippi, social issues, social movements and activism, social studies, sociology, the, the american south, title_abc, title_c, turkey creek, u.s. history, united states, urban studies, usa, wetlands, world regions

Up Next in Water

  • Drowned Out
    1:14:44
    Drowned Out

    Drowned Out

    Directed by Franny Armstrong • Documentary • 2003 • 75 minutes

    Three choices. Move to the slums in the city, accept a place at a resettlement site or stay at home and drown. The people of Jalsindhi in central India must make a decision fast. In the next few weeks, their village will disappear un...

  • Gladesmen: The Last of the Sawgrass C...
    1:26:42
    Gladesmen: The Last of the Sawgrass C...

    Gladesmen: The Last of the Sawgrass C...

    Directed by David Abel • Documentary • 2018 • 87 minutes

    GLADESMEN: The Last of the Sawgrass Cowboys is an award-winning documentary about the federal government's ban on Florida's iconic airboats in much of the Everglades. The measure is part of the world's largest and most expensive effort to ...

  • Groundswell Rising
    1:11:12
    Groundswell Rising

    Groundswell Rising

    Directed by Renard Cohen • Documentary • 2014 • 70 minutes

    GROUNDSWELL RISING gives voice to ordinary folks engaged in a David and Goliath struggle against Big Oil and Gas. We meet parents, scientists, doctors, farmers and individuals across the political spectrum decrying the energy extraction ...

×