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starring: Dianne Braddock, Carolyn Lee Brown, Gerald Colbert, Arthur Hanes Jr., Freeman Hrabowski III
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786305080466
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6305080461
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: January 12, 1999
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 9880
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 09, 1997
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
There are many remarkable things about the documentary 4 Little Girls. Spike Lee's striking, beautifully realized film is a cinematic lesson of what kind of material is better suited to the documentary format. In his first documentary, Lee shares an attribute of Ken Burns: the major event in his documentary is not seen on camera. Except for four quick glimpses of black-and-white autopsy photos, the picture stays clear from the bombing. Lee remains with the faces, the girls' friends, families, and the historic figures of the era. They've all grown up since the bombing but their memories haven't faded. The vital facts of the case are certainly here: the troubled history of Birmingham, the court proceedings, friends' last run-ins with the girls. What touches us deeper though are those witnesses telling us of living through the core era of segregation and bigotry: a father explaining to his child why she can't have a sandwich in a cafeteria and a woman offering up tears of past events. There's even an interview with George Wallace, the prince of segregation, that belongs in a David Lynch feature. Lee's film asserts the bombing energized the civil rights movement and when the voice of America, Walter Cronkite, echoes those sentiments, you believe he may have it right. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 4 Little Girls
This is a must see for any person who truly believes in equal opportunity for all Americans. Set aside any feelings about Spike Lee. This is not his story and nor is it told like it is. This story is the story of the families (and communities) unnecesseary, unspeakable loss that should be told again again. Lest we forget. It will grip your heart. It is shocking that people can be so cruel and ignorant and insensitive in such a time of conflict and sorrow. With a huge amount of our population ... Read More
Rating: - '4 Little Girls' who left behind a great legacy.....
September 15, 1963 is a date that remains imprinted in the minds of many--particularly, those from Birmingham, Alabama. This was the day that four innocent young girls died in a racially motivated bombing at an African American Baptist church. Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins were innocent casualties in a race war that raged on in the Southern United States, as well as the rest of the country. This was a time when people of all ages were getting involved in the ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent Documentary
I am a middle school teacher and used this documentary to help my students visualize what segregation looked like in the 1960s. We read The Watsons Go to Birmingham which focuses on segregation in the south but it was not until watching the documentary that it really became real for my students. Not being completely familiar with segregation in Brimingham myself, this documentary also hit home for me. It is very informational and is also done very well so that it keeps even a 12 year olds attention. ... Read More
Rating: - Good Movie, but, needs more substance. Additionally, sequence of events needs to be more organized
Good Movie, but, needs more substance. Sequence of events also needs to be more organized.
Rating: - Disturbing but an unfortunate page in US History...
I guess time is the only way for us to measure our progress and I'm happy to see that the wheels of justice finally turned on those who committed that act of cowardly terrorism. There are no other words for bigotry and racial hated other than "ignorance". This includes any extremists who would kill someone because of the color of their skin or how they were put on this Earth by the same God they worship. I hope all those graves have been filled with those people and America and the world can finally move ... Read More
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