4 Little Girls

Birmingham, 1963. A single explosion rocked a community and awakened a sleeping nation.

Awards

Academy Awards (1998) – Nominated: Oscar: Best Documentary, Features

Satellite Awards (1998) – Winner: Golden Satellite Award: Best Motion Picture, Documentary

Image Awards (NAACP) (1999) – Winner: Outstanding News, Talk or Information Special

International Documentary Association (1998) – Nominated: Feature Documentaries

National Educational Media Network (1999) – Winner: Gold Apple

National Society of Film Critics Awards (1998) – Nominated: Best Non-Fiction Film

Online Film Critics Society Awards (1998) – Winner: Best Documentary

Online Film & Television Association (1998) – Nominated: Best Documentary Picture

Online Film & Television Association (1998) – Winner: Best Informational Special

Awards Circuit Community Awards (1997) – Nominated: Best Documentary Feature

20/20 Awards (2018) – Winner: Best Documentary

Acapulco Black Film Festival (1998) – Nominated: Black Film Award: Best Director

Critics Choice Awards (1998) – Nominated: Best Documentary

CINE Competition (1997) – Winner: CINE Golden Eagle: Documentary

Primetime Emmy Awards (1998) – Nominated: Outstanding Non-Fiction Special

Primetime Emmy Awards (1998) – Nominated: Outstanding Cinematography for Non-Fiction Programming

Primetime Emmy Awards (1998) – Nominated: Outstanding Sound Editing in Non-Fiction Program

Primetime Emmy Awards (1998) – Nominated: Outstanding Picture Editing for Non-Fiction Programming

Primetime Emmy Awards (1998) – Nominated: Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Non-Fiction Program

Feature

International

Award Winning

Year(s) Shown

2003

Director(s):

Spike Lee

Country:

USA

Year:

1997

Duration:

102 min

Language(s):

English

Format(s):

Video

RATING:

4_Little_Girls_poster Poster — Film Poster

On 15 September 1963, a bomb was tossed into the basement of an Alabama church which had become a focal point for the US civil rights movement, killing four little girls. This is silver-screen legend Spike Lee’s meticulously researched and movingly executed homage to the murdered children and surviving family and friends. Interviews with civil rights leaders and their foes, illustrated by dramatic archive footage of mass action met with brutal police crackdowns, paint a vivid portrait of the climate of hatred and intolerance widespread in sixties America, especially in the South. Disturbing yet strangely uplifting, the film offers a unique glimpse into a community coming to terms with this tragedy in a society still battling the bigotry which caused it.

Sam Pollard is a guest of the Festival courtesy of the Binger, Sundance Institute, SABC1 and the NFVF.

Courtesy of Spike Lee and HBO.

Guests

Producer / Editor: Sam Pollard

Film Stills

Previous Festivals

Acapulco Black Film Festival, Mexico (1998)