Spike Lee's made-for-HBO documentary about the four young girls whose deaths helped galvanize the civil rights movement examines the youngsters behind the martyrs, while presenting a powerful portrait of a city and a country at a pivotal time in history.
On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in doggedly segregated Birmingham, AL was bombed. Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Rosamond Robertson -- an 11-year-old and three 14-year-olds -- died in the blast. Lee occasionally stumbles as a documentarian: Equating recent church burnings with the Ku Klux Klan's vicious and virtually unquestioned reign...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
142 mins