4 Little Girls
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Actor: Arthur Hanes Jr., Carolyn Lee Brown, Dianne Braddock, Freeman Hrabowski III, Gerald ColbertBrand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Chris McNair
Primary Contributor: Maxine McNair
Primary Contributor: Howell Raines
Primary Contributor: Robertson, Wamo Reed
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Movie Reviews of 4 Little Girls
Movie Review: Great documentary
Summary: 4 Stars
The documentary itself is powerful and moving. I showed it to my high school freshmen class for historical background while reading The Secret Life of Bees; they liked it too. I was amazed at how this documentary affected them. Their writings about the film were almost as touching as the film itself.
The only problem I ran into is that the "scene selection" feature appears to be missing. It made showing the documentary to multiple classes very difficult. I had to fast forward and rewind just like the old VHS, but it is much slower.
Summary of 4 Little Girls
From the director of ' 'Do The Right Thing' ' and ' 'Malcolm X' ' comes ' 'a masterpiece.' ' (Chicago Tribune) When a bomb tears through the basement of a black Baptist church on September 15, 1963, it takes the lives of four young girls. This racially motivated crime, sparks the nation?s outrage and helps fuel the civil rights movement sweeping across the country.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
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