Originally produced as a motion picture in 1998.

Special features: Spike Lee biography; making of Four little girls featurette; web links.

System requirements to access Web links: PC; Internet connection.

Director of photography, Ellen Kuras ; editor, Sam Pollard ; music, Terence Blanchard.

Interview subjects: Bill Cosby, Walter Cronkite, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, George Wallace ... [et al.].

The Birmingham Campaign was launched in 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. and other activists were soon jailed, but it was the participation of the children that advanced the momentum of the Birmingham movement. They marched alongside the adults and were taken to jail with them as well. Because the 16th St. Baptist Church was close to the downtown area, it was an ideal location to hold rallies and meetings. On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, dynamite planted by the Ku Klux Klan, exploded in the building. Under the fallen debris, the bodies of four girls were found. Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley died because of the color of their skin. Features archival film footage, home photographs, comments by surviving family members, and interviews with local and national figures of the time.

Not rated.

DVD ; full screen presentation (1.33:1) ; Dolby digital ; region 1.

Includes English, Spanish or French subtitles ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.