Trouble the Water is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal.

The film centers on a young couple surviving Hurricane Katrina, and facing their own troubled past during the storm's aftermath.

Trouble the Water was distributed by Zeitgeist Films and premiered in theaters in New York City and Los Angeles on August 22, 2008, followed by a national release.

Trouble the Water opens with the filmmakers meeting 24-year-old aspiring rap artist Kimberly Rivers Roberts and her husband Scott at a Red Cross shelter in Central Louisiana, then flashes back two weeks, with Kimberly turning her new video camera on herself and her neighbors trapped in their 9th Ward attic as the storm rages.

[1] Trouble the Water was distributed in France, with Celine Prost translating the French subtitles.