4 Little Girls
starring: Dianne Braddock, Carolyn Lee Brown, Gerald Colbert, Arthur Hanes Jr., Freeman Hrabowski III
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: LEE,SPIKE
EAN: 9780783118154
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0783118155
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 23, 2001
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 9618
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: July 09, 1997
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Documents the events surrounding the 1963 bombing of an African American Baptist Church in Alabama, which resulted in the deaths of four young girls.
Genre: Documentary
Rating: NR
Release Date: 8-JAN-2002
Media Type: DVD
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
Average Rating: 
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- 4 Little GirlsThis is a must see for any person who truly believes in equal opportunity for all Americans. Set ... Read More
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- '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 ... Read More
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- Excellent DocumentaryI am a middle school teacher and used this documentary to help my students visualize what segregation ... Read More
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- Good Movie, but, needs more substance. Additionally, sequence of events needs to be more organizedGood Movie, but, needs more substance. Sequence of events also needs to be more organized.
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- 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 ... Read More
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