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4 Little Girls documentary

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Original title: 4 Little Girls
Year: 1997
Running time: 102 min.
Country: United States
Director: Spike Lee
Screenwriter: Spike Lee
Cast: Documentary
Music: Terence Blanchard
Cinematography: Ellen Kuras
Producer: 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks
Genre: Documentary
Synopsis: This film recounts the people and events leading up to the one of the most despicable hate-crimes during the height of the civil-rights movement, the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In that attack, four little African-American girls lost their lives and a nation was simultaneously revolted, angered and galvanized to push the fight for equality and justice on.

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Awards: 1997: Nominated for Oscar: Best Documentary

1997: Critics' Choice Awards: Best Documentary

1997: Satellite Awards: Best Documentary

1997: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): nominated to Best Documentary.

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"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: Chicago Sun-Times
"Director Spike Lee has made some of the most hard-edged and unsettling American films on racism and its effects. Yet none has been as moving as this"

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
"'Little Girls' brilliantly captures a moment in American history and tells an achingly painful story of injustice and family loss."

Edward Guthmann: SFgate
"This subject demands consummate screen treatment and now has absolutely gotten it from director/producer Spike Lee"

USA Today
"An important act of historical preservation, a focused and effective film that brings back a dark, important moment in history with startling clarity."

Keith Phipps: AV Club
"Lee takes a conventional, talking-heads-and-archival-clips approach to the material, but rewardingly establishes an intimate connection with his subjects by devoting considerable time to the personalities and families of the four victims."

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"It tells a powerful story simply and movingly and thus serves as an important cinematic document of one of the most heinous crimes of the civil rights era"

Frank Scheck: The Hollywood Reporter

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