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Jan 31, 2023 · Shows the Power of Film. In July 1997, Spike Lee was preparing for an Oscar-qualification run of his documentary 4 Little Girls — about four Black girls killed in a 1963 Birmingham Baptist Church bombing — when he got an unexpected call from the FBI. “They wanted to see the film,” Lee recounted last week during a Q&A about his new film ...
4 Little Girls. 4 Little Girls is a 1997 American historical documentary film about the murder of four African-American girls (Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Rosamond Robertson) in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. The film was directed by Spike Lee and nominated ...
Feb 15, 2019 · The 16th St. Baptist Church. 4 Little Girls is a film that demonstrates both resilience and resistance: in particular, there is the resilience of the families who must live on even after the deaths of their daughters. This film also shows viewers the resistance that people held up during the ’50s and ’60s; the marches, the sit-ins, and the ...
Oct 24, 1997 · 4 Little Girls. The little girls had gone to church early for choir practice, and we can imagine them, dressed in their Sunday best, meeting their friends in the room destroyed by the bomb. We can fashion the picture in our minds because Lee has, in a way, brought them back to life, through photographs, through old home movies and especially ...
The culmination of a wish that Lee first got as a film-school undergraduate, "4 Little Girls" brilliantly captures a moment in American history and tells an achingly painful story of injustice and ...
Oct 24, 1997 · Spike Lee’s “4 Little Girls” is a magnificent documentary portrayal of an act of murderous barbarism and its astonishing historical aftermath: the story of the Birmingham, Ala., c…
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Dec 12, 1997 · December 12, 1997 2:00 am. An Interview with Spike Lee, Director of "4 Little Girls". by Brandon Judell. The move is on to get Spike Lee’s “ 4 Little Girls ” a Best Documentary Oscar. nod ...
