4 Little Girls

…Lee in the Oscar-nominated documentary 4 Little Girls (1997). In the film, Lee interviews witnesses to the bombing and family members of the victims while at the same time exploring the backdrop of segregation and white harassment that were central to the time period.

…X, and his poignant documentary 4 Little Girls (1997)—about the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing—all received Academy Award nominations, he was repeatedly denied an Oscar win.

…along with documentaries such as 4 Little Girls (1997), concerning the deaths of four young Black girls in the bombing of a Birmingham, Alabama, church in 1963, and When the Levees Broke (2006), about New Orleans during and after Hurricane Katrina. Among newcomers who emerged during the 1990s, Paul Thomas…