4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls
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Actor: Arthur Hanes Jr., Carolyn Lee Brown, Dianne Braddock, Freeman Hrabowski III, Gerald Colbert
Brand: Warner Brothers
Primary Contributor: Chris McNair
Primary Contributor: Maxine McNair
Primary Contributor: Howell Raines
Primary Contributor: Wamo Reed Robertson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, 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
Product features:
  • 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.Running Time: 102 min. Format:

DVD Reviews of 4 Little Girls

DVD Review: literatureteacher
Summary: 5 Stars

This video was a great addition to studying "The Watson's go to Birmingham." I highly recommend it!

DVD Review: Did not like it
Summary: 1 Stars

Did not like it. Too much talking and not enough drama. I gave it away to someone.

DVD 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.

DVD Review: 4 Little Girls
Summary: 5 Stars

This is the most well written, documented move in a long time, being from Birmingham and the era, this movie is to the point and right on the money.
If you didnt know, you do now!!!!

DVD Review: 4 Little Girls
Summary: 5 Stars

The HBO documentary about bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama begings with a touching song about each of the 4 girls that were killed. There are interviews with the girls' family, friends, teachers... Spike Lee uses actual film footage from the era to help viewers have a deeper understanding of what things were like during that era. It is a moving documentary and is appropriate for students grades 6 and up.

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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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