4 Little Girls :Birmingham Church Bombing
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4 Little Girls [VHS] $8.00 There are many remarkable things about the documentary 4 Little Girls. Spike Lee’s striking, beautifully realized film is a cinematic lesson of what kind of material is better suited to the documentary format. In his first documentary, Lee shares an attribute of Ken Burns: the major event in his documentary is not seen on camera. Except for four quick glimpses of black-and-white autopsy photos, th… |
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While the World Watched $17.99 On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing four of her friends in the girlâs rest room she had just exited. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history . . . and the turning point in a youn… |
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Carry Me Home : Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution $5.36 The Emancipation Proclamation was issued in 1863, but a contemporary African American saying predicted that freedom would come only after another hundred years of struggle. That prediction was about right: the civil rights struggle erupted in the middle of the 20th century, with its violent epicenter in the industrial city of Birmingham, Alabama. There freedom riders and voter-rights activist… |
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Birmingham Sunday (Orbis Pictus Honor for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children (Awards)) $10.66 Racial bombings were so frequent in Birmingham that it became known as ”Bombingham.” Until September 15, 1963, these attacks had been threatening but not deadly. On that Sunday morning, however, a blast in the 16th Street Baptist Church ripped through the exterior wall and claimed the lives of four girls. The church was the ideal target for segregationists, as it was the rallying place for Birmi… |
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4 Little Girls $8.36 Acclaimed director Spike Lee examines one of the most shocking crimes to occur in American history–the 1963 bombing of a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, that resulted in the deaths of four children attending Sunday School–in a moving documentary that earned an Academy Award nomination. Along with archival news footage, Lee talks with surviving family members and interviews Coretta Scott Kin… |
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Charlie Rose (July 14, 1997) $1.99 … |
