Directed by:
Spike LeeCinematography:
Ellen KurasComposer:
Terence BlanchardCast:
Ossie Davis, Walter Cronkite, Bill Cosby, Jesse Jackson, Martin Luther King, George Wallace, Mahalia Jackson (a.f.), Spike Lee, David Brinkley (a.f.)VOD (1)
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On a Birmingham Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, while attending Sunday school, four little girls were brutally murdered when a bomb ripped through the basement of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Dead were Addie Mae Collins (14), Carole Denise McNair (11), Cynthia Wesley (14) and Carole Rosamond Robertson (14). A terrorist attack, orchestrated by Robert Dynamite Bob Chambliss, the bombing was one in a series of racial attacks against Black people across the country, but one that had a tremendous impact on America. Told through the eyes of people who were there--survivors, witnesses, defenders and prosecutors, this account records a senseless act whose supporters once thought they would be able to put an end to integration in Birmingham. Instead, it fueled the movement further when it robbed 4 innocent children of their lives and their place in the world. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ossie Davis
USA
Best movies:
The Hill (1965)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Walter Cronkite
USA
Best movies:
Apollo 13 (1995)
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020) - a.f.
The Butler (2013) - a.f.
Bill Cosby
USA
Best movies:
Let's Do It Again (1975)
A Piece of the Action (1977)
Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Jesse Jackson
USA
Best movies:
The Butler (2013) - a.f.
Martin Luther King
USA
Best movies:
Dangerous: The Short Films (1993) (video compilation)
JFK (1991)
The Doors (1991) - a.f.
George Wallace
USA
Best movies:
Forrest Gump (1994) - a.f.
The Doors (1991) - a.f.
Nixon (1995) - a.f.
Mahalia Jackson (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Imitation of Life (1959)
The Best Man (1964)
House of Boys (2009) - a.f.
Spike Lee
USA
Best movies:
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Mo' Better Blues (1990)
Clockers (1995)
David Brinkley (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Kill the Irishman (2011) - a.f.
Nixon (1995) - a.f.
Shampoo (1975) - a.f.