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Record rainfall in July caused widespread damage in the Midwest, with already high rivers, aging sewers, and freak storms leading to flooded basements and roads, and forcing some people to evacuate. The ongoing story started us thinking about floods in film. Here are 10 high-water marks for depictions of, and stories about, floods, from heavy rains to cresting rivers, bursting dams, storm surges, and the aftermath.
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TYCOON
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John Wayne portrays an American engineer attempting to build a railroad through the Andes mountains to the coast. Romantic and aquatic complications ensue.
DAM BUSTERS, THE
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Michael Redgrave, Richard Todd and Ursula Jeans are featured in this thrilling World War II yarn about an ingenious British plot to sabotage a strategic dam.
IN DREAMS
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Neil Jordan's take on the psycho-killer genre is worth a second look. Darius Khondji's colorful cinematography and an eerie underwater town make the movie.
IDENTITY
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In this well-crafted, suspenseful thriller, a sudden rainstorm strands a group of strangers in a rundown hotel, where a murderer begins killing them off one by one.
DROWNED OUT
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This powerful documentary looks at the decision of Indian families to remain in their homes and drown rather than make way for the Sardor Sarovar "mega-dam".
LAST WAVE, THE
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In Peter Weir's fourth feature, a Sydney lawyer is sucked into a whirlpool of events surrounding the mysterious death of an Australian Aborigine.
COMPLETE METROPOLIS, THE
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Fritz Lang's visionary depiction of a city controlled by an authoritarian industrialist, who lives in a paradise above while workers toil in subterranean sections of the city.
WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE
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Spike Lee's epic documentary on Hurricane Katrina. "The sheer volume of suffering and misery chronicled by the  film is crushing" (Stephen Holden, NY Times).
UP THE YANGTZE
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In this documentary on the effects of the Three Gorges Dam, the filmmakers travels up the Yangtze to observe as industry and "progress" engulf the landscape.
ANGELINA (L'ONOREVOLE ANGELINA)
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In postwar Rome, Angelina (Anna Magnani) struggles to make ends meet. When a flood destroys her poor community, she gets everyone to move into an empty mansion.