4 LITTLE GIRLS

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• Release Year: 1997
• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: September 15, 1963. It could have been a regular day in the life of Americans everywhere. Instead it became a day that would change their lives without mercy. Spike Lee takes an in-depth look at one of America's most terrible crimes, and the impact it had on the civil rights movement.; ; When a bomb tears through the basement of a black Baptist church on a peaceful fall morning, it takes the lives of four young girls; Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins. This racially motivated crime, taking place at a time when the civil rights movement is burning with a new flame, could have doused that flame forever. Instead it fuels a nation's outrage and brings Birmingham, Alabama to the forefront of America's concern.; ; 4 Little Girls features archival film footage, home photographs and comments by surviving family members. Interviews with local and national figures of the time include Bill Cosby, Walter Cronkite, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young and Coretta Scott King, as well as a rare and revealing interview with former Alabama governor George Wallace.; ; From the director of Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X and Get On The Bus comes a powerful documentary film that captures a time, a place and a way of life that would be forever altered by the death of 4 Little Girls.
• Cast: Maxine McNair, Chris McNair, Helen Pegues, Queen Nunn, Arthur Hanes Jr., Howell Raines, Harold McNair, Carole C. Smitherman, Wamo Reed Robertson, Dianne Braddock, Carolyn Lee Brown, Alpha Robertson, Wyatt Tee Walker, Fred Shuttlesworth, Florence Terrell, Gwendolyn White, Doris Lockhart, Gerald Colbert, Freeman Hrabowski III, Shirley Wesley King, Carolyn M. McKinstry, David J. Vann, Bill Baxley, Albert Boutwell, Andrew Young, Taylor Branch, Nadean S. Williams, Janie Gaines, Rhonda Nunn Thomas, James Bevel, Tommy Wrenn, George Wallace, Nicholas Katzenbach, Billie Harris, Ricky Powell, Lillie Brown, Ossie Davis, Mahalia Jackson, Barbara Nunn, John Cross, Barbara Cross, Morris Marshall, Junie Collins, Diane Nash, Faye Davis, Coretta Scott King, Walter Cronkite, Bill Cosby, Jesse Jackson, Reggie White, Ralph Abernathy, David Brinkley, Eugene 'Bull' Connor, James Farmer, Martin Luther King, Spike Lee
• Director: Spike Lee
• Runtime: 1:42
• Company: 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks (40 Acres & A Mule), Home Box Office, Inc. (HBO), HBO Documentary Films, HBO Home Video
• Media Format: Movie