4 little girls [videorecording] / an HBO documentary film in association with 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks production ; a Spike Lee Joint ; director, producer, Spike Lee ; producer, Sam Pollard.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 91478 | HBO Home VideoLanguage: English Summary language: English, Spanish, French Publication details: [New York] : HBO Home Video, c1998.Description: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0783118155
- 9780783118154
- Four little girls
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) -- Alabama -- Birmingham
- African American children -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century
- African American churches -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century
- Bombings -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century
- DVD
- Murder -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century
- Birmingham (Ala.) -- Race relations
- Director of photography, Ellen Kuras ; editor, Sam Pollard ; music, Terence Blanchard.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD
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Main Library | DVD | 976.1781 F773 | Available | 33111006602896 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Director Spike Lee made his first feature-length documentary with this powerful story of the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, AL, in 1963, which took the lives of four girls, ages 11 through 14. The shocking incident received national press attention and became a rallying point in the ongoing struggle for civil rights, but while Lee's film examines the crime, the perpetrators, and the long struggle to bring them to justice, it also offers a close look at the four girls themselves as their friends and families recall, in moving detail, who they were and how they lived. A variety of civil rights activists, politicians, journalists, and lawyers are interviewed onscreen, including Walter Cronkite and a brief but disturbing meeting with former Alabama governor George Wallace. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Special features include: epilogue, Making of Four Little Girls, weblinks, and Spike Lee biography.
Director of photography, Ellen Kuras ; editor, Sam Pollard ; music, Terence Blanchard.
Interview subjects: Bill Cosby, Walter Cronkite, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, George Wallace ... [et al.].
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.
MPAA rating: Not rated.
DVD, Dolby digital; Region 1; aspect ratio 4:3.
Includes English, Spanish or French subtitles ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.