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Film · 1997
4 Little Girls
Investigating the devastating 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, this documentary honors the lives and personalities of the four African-American schoolgirls who were murdered. Through intimate family remembrances and historical testimonies, the film chronicles how personal bereavement galvanized the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Through interviews with parents, siblings, cousins, friends, neighbours, and teachers, Addie Mae, Denise, Cynthia, and Carole become distinct personalities, with their own senses of humour, community spirit, religious feeling, political conscience, and personal ambition. They are humanised.
Darragh O’Donoghue on Senses of Cinema There is mostly sadness and regret at the surface in '4 Little Girls,' but there is anger in the depths, as there should be.
Roger Ebert on RogerEbert.com Whatever you think of Spike Lee, this is an excellent documentary. He makes a good case that this was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. The average American was horrified at this barbaric event.
antihostile on Reddit A great documentary which possessed an overwhelmingly touching story by representing life of these 4 girls in such great depth that it raises much of a despair yet provoking a sense of compassion and anger to the viewers. A Profoundly Conventional Film.
joomjim4 on Metacritic There is not a thing went wrong in this exceptionally engrossing documentary from Spike Lee. The story was so personal in a way that it raises such anger for these innocent girls. Magnificent film.
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