4 Little Girls

1997
TV-14
1h 42min

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Crime Documentary Political Documentary Documentary History

Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA documentary of the notorious racial terrorist 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan of the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement, which kill... Tout lireA documentary of the notorious racial terrorist 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan of the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement, which killed four young girls.A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist 1963 bombing by the Ku Klux Klan of the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham during the Civil Rights Movement, which killed four young girls.

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- Spike Lee
Casting principal

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7,8/10

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Réalisation
- Spike Lee
Casting principal

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Nommé pour 1 Oscar
- 9 victoires et 11 nominations au total

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Maxine McNair

Self - Mother of Denise McNair

Walter Cronkite

Self - Special Correspondent CBS News

Chris McNair

Self - Father of Denise McNair

Fred Lee Shuttlesworth

Self - Pres. of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights

Helen Pegues

Self - Denise's Aunt

Queen Nunn

Self - Neighbor of Denise McNair

Arthur Hanes Jr.

Self - Defense Attorney for Bob Chambliss

Howell Raines

Self - New York Times Editor

Harold McNair

Self - Denise's Uncle

Carole C. Smitherman

Self - Denise's Childhood Friend
(as Carole C. Smitherman Esq.)

Wamo Reed Robertson

Self - Carole's Aunt

Dianne Braddock

Self - Carole's Sister

Carolyn Lee Brown

Self - Carole's Childhood Friend

Alpha Robertson

Self - Mother of Carole Robertson

Wyatt Tee Walker

Self - Former Executive Director of SCLC

Florence Terrell

Self - School Teacher

Gwendolyn White

Self - School Teacher

Doris Lockhart

Self - Neighbor of Cynthia Wesley

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Anecdotes
Was inducted into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry on December 13, 2017, the day after Doug Jones, the US Attorney who prosecuted the trial, was elected to the Senate.

Citations
Howell Raines: A day in 1957, in the afternoon, the evening newscast, there's a piece of film of a gang of white men beating Fred Shuttlesworth, in the street outside of Phillips high school where he'd taken his children. With chains they beat him to the ground. And the reason it was riveting for me, I was fourteen years old, was that the police said they couldn't find the men who did it. And I recognized one of the men. I knew who he was. I'd seen him at Jack Cash's barbecue and I knew the police hung out at Jack Cash's barbecue and I knew they were lying.

Connexions
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: Contact/This World, Then the Fireworks/A Simple Wish/4 Little Girls/The Big Sleep/Shall We Dance? (1997)

Bandes originales
Birmingham Sunday
Written by Richard Farina
Used by permission of Songs of PolyGram International Inc.
Performed by Joan Baez
Courtesy of Vanguard Records/A Welk Music Group Co.
By arrangement with Warner Special Products

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Powerful documentary

I was not born when the Birmingham church bombing occurred. I first read about it when I was 10 or 11 in a Reader's Digest story and for some reason the names of the girls stuck in my mind all these years. I saw this on HBO and it is one of the only films that continued to leave an emotional impression on me long after it was over. Especially the haunting last image of Denise McNair happily holding her beloved (white) doll, and the overwhelming sense that someone who should be in the world today, is not with us. The interviews with family and friends of the girls are what makes this documentary special. Also it does a great job of educating people about Birmingham's civil rights history up to the bombing and just how it took an appalling act of violence to wake up white America. Let's hope it never takes this sort of crime again to make us wake up to other simmering injustices.