4 Little Girls

4 Little Girls

On that Birmingham Sunday the blood ran like wine

1997102 min7.1 / 10

A solemn, historically grounded documentary that confronts a foundational American atrocity and its human cost through archival evidence and testimony.

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.

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