4 Little Girls

7/12/2026

At the height of the racial tensions in Alabama in 1963, the entire American nation was shocked by a bomb exploding in a church that killed four young girls. What we now see for the next hundred minutes or so is a delicately but powerfully woven story that talks to, and reminisces with, family members of the victims whilst illustrating with a plentiful and powerful selection of archive just how generally toxic the atmosphere was in a state where segregation was rife and supported at the highest levels of it's democratically elected government. What's also quite striking about this documentary is that it makes much more of an effort than many of it's contemporaries to present a potent balance, with both live and retrospective contributions from some of the establishment individuals whose dy