4 Little Girls

On that Birmingham Sunday the blood ran like wine

On September 15, 1963, a bomb destroyed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four young girls who were there for Sunday school. It was a crime that shocked the nation--and a defining moment in the history of the civil-rights movement. Spike Lee re-examines the full story of the bombing, including a revealing interview with former Alabama Governor George Wallace.

Documentary

Maxine McNair

(Self - Mother of Denise McNair)

Chris McNair

(Self - Father of Denise McNair)

Helen Pegues

(Self - Denise's Aunt)

Queen Nunn

(Self - Neighbor of Denise McNair)

Arthur Hanes Jr.

(Self - Defense Attorney for Bob Chambliss)

Howell Raines

(Self - New York Times Editor)

Harold McNair

(Self - Denise's Uncle)

Carole C. Smitherman

(Self - Denise's Childhood Friend)

Wamo Reed Robertson

(Self - Carole's Aunt)

Dianne Braddock

(Self - Carole's Sister)

Carolyn Lee Brown

(Self - Carole's Childhood Friend)

Alpha Robertson

(Self - Mother of Carole Robertson)

Wyatt Tee Walker

(Self - Former Executive Director of SCLC)

Fred Lee Shuttlesworth

(Self - Pres. of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights)

Florence Terrell

(Self - School Teacher)

Gwendolyn White

(Self - School Teacher)

Doris Lockhart

(Self - Neighbor of Cynthia Wesley)

Gerald Colbert

(Self - Cynthia's Childhood Neighbor)

Freeman Hrabowski III

(Self - Cynthia's Childhood Friend)

Shirley Wesley King

(Self - Cynthia's Sister)

Carolyn M. McKinstry

(Self - Cynthia's Childhood Friend)

David J. Vann

(Self - Former Mayor of Birmingham)

Bill Baxley

(Self - Former Attorney General of Alabama)

Albert Boutwell

(Self - Former Mayor of Birmingham (archive footage))

Andrew Young

(Self - SCLC)

Taylor Branch

(Self - Author)

Nadean S. Williams

(Self - Music Teacher)

Janie Gaines

(Self - Addie Mae's Sister)

Rhonda Nunn Thomas

(Self - Denise's Childhood Friend)

James Bevel

(Self - SCLC)

Tommy Wrenn

(Self - SCLC)

George Wallace

(Self)

Nicholas Katzenbach

(Self - Former US Attorney General)

Billie Harris

(Self - Funeral Home Director)

Ricky Powell

(Self - Denise's Childhood Friend)

Lillie Brown

(Self - SCLC)

Ossie Davis

(Self - Actor and Playwright)

Mahalia Jackson

(Self - During March on Washington (archive footage))

Barbara Nunn

(Self - Denise's Childhood Friend)

John Cross

(Self - Former Pastor of 16th St. Baptist Church)

Barbara Cross

(Self - Daughter of Reverend Cross)

Morris Marshall

(Self - 16th Street Baptist Church Member)

Junie Collins

(Self - Addie Mae's Sister)

Diane Nash

(Self - SCLC)

Faye Davis

(Self - Carole's Childhood Friend)

Coretta Scott King

(Self)

Walter Cronkite

(Self - Special Correspondent CBS News)

Bill Cosby

(Self - Educator)

Jesse Jackson

(Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition)

Reggie White

(Self - Green Bay Packers)

Ralph Abernathy

(Self - with Martin Luther King (archive footage) (uncredited))

David Brinkley

(Self - Reports on Chambliss Trial (archive footage) (uncredited))

Addie Mae Collins

(Self (joint funeral) (archive footage) (uncredited))

James Farmer

(Self - with Freedom Riders (archive footage) (uncredited))

Martin Luther King Jr.

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Spike Lee

(Interviewer (voice) (uncredited))

Denise McNair

(Self (at family gathering) (archive footage) (uncredited))

Cynthia Wesley

(Self (joint funeral) (archive footage) (uncredited))

Carole Rosamond Robertson

(Self (joint funeral) (archive footage) (uncredited))