ACE Presents: 4 Little Girls

Director: Spike Lee, Spike Lee, Spike Lee, Spike Lee, Spike Lee, Spike Lee

1997 / 102min / 35mm

Lee sifts through the wreckage of one of the most heinous acts of domestic terrorism in American history, the September 15th, 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which resulted in the deaths of four Black Sunday school students between the ages of 11 and 14. Reviewing the facts of the Klan-affiliated atrocity, as well as the too-brief biographies of its victims, Lee’s profound and poignant documentary gives a human face to the unbearable cost of political violence and bigotry, its power greatly enhanced by the deft contributions of lauded editor Sam Pollard, in Lee and Pollard's fifth collaboration. “Immensely dignified and moving… [Lee’s] straightforward documentary style loses none of his usual clarity and fire.”—The New York Times

Q&A with editor Sam Pollard, moderated by producer and filmmaker Daphne McWilliams, on Saturday, June 29th