Poster for Harry Shearer's documentary The Big Uneasy.

Maria Garzino, Contract Specialist, US Army Corps Of Engineers, blew the whistle on the poor workmanship within the New Orleans hurricane protection system, and was later named Public Servant of the Year by the Federal Office Of Special Council.

Geotechnical Engineer Dr. Robert Bea, in his office at the University of California, Berkley, chaired the Independent Investigative Team that blamed human error for the New Orleans levees failure in 2005.

Harry Shearer, director of The Big Uneasy, in New Orleans. 

 Rebuilt and repainted dry cleaning shop on the Mid-City neighborhood that was flooded following the failure of the Federal levees system in New Orleans in 2005. 

TIME Magazine senior correspondent Michael Grunwald reveals the layers of malfeasance within the US Army Corps Of Engineers that left New Orleans far from fully prepared for a hurricane, in this scene from The Big Uneasy.

Soil expert Dr. Robert Bea of the University of California, Berkley, points to a repaired levee breach on the 17th Street canal in New Orleans.

Actor John Goodman, in the documentary The Big Uneasy, introduces Ask A New Orleanian segments to designed to correct misconceptions about the region.

Logo of the US Army Corps of Engineers as seen from outside their New Orleans offices, on Leake Street.

Dr. Ivor Van Heerden, former director of the LSU Hurricane Center, at the site of the 2005 levee breach that destroyed the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans.

In a scene from The Big Uneasy, a Washington Post newspaper clipping reveals the misplaced confidence of the US Army Corps Of Engineers in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina in 2005. 

Harry Shearer, director of The Big Uneasy, in New Orleans on the bank of the Mississippi River with the Pontchartrain Expressway in the background.

Hurricane expert Dr. Ivor Van Heerden in his LSU office, before being fired following his pronouncements concerning the failure of the Federal levee system in New Orleans during the Katrina storm.

Karen Durham-Aguilera, shown at the MR-GO barrier construction site near New Orleans, oversees the US Army Corps Of Engineers $14.6 billion hurricane protection system construction. 