E01
Day One
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in New Orleans. At Memorial Hospital, the doctors, nurses, and staff tend to patients and brace for the storm.
Eight-part dramatisation of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath inside a flooded New Orleans hospital, where staff face impossible choices as conditions deteriorate.
8 episodes · 6 h 16 min
E01
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in New Orleans. At Memorial Hospital, the doctors, nurses, and staff tend to patients and brace for the storm.
E02
The staff and patients think they've made it through the worst—except the waters aren't receding. Reports of a new crisis circulate.
E03
As the city floods, the hospital loses power. Mulderick and the staff attempt to cope with the terrible conditions and prepare for an evacuation.
E04
Conditions continue to worsen. Mulderick, Pou, and more staff grapple with how to best help their patients—and how that help will be prioritized.
E05
With pressures mounting to abandon the hospital, the staff is forced to make challenging decisions.
E06
State investigators begin to explore what happened to the 45 people found dead at Memorial in the aftermath of the hurricane.
E07
New evidence comes to light as Schafer and Rider dig deeper into their investigation of the deaths at Memorial.
E08
Pou fights to defend herself. Schafer and Rider push their case forward.
Five Days at Memorial (2022)