When documentaries are filmed, produced, and then viewed, the audience is left with
             more knowledge and awareness than before having watched it. When I watch a National
             Geographic documentary on exploitation of indigenous peoples, I become aware of their
             situation and further understand the cruel world around me. Also, my emotions are stirred up.
             With the awareness that documentaries bring, also comes the waves of emotional buildup.
             This is why documentaries are most effective in grabbing an audience's attention on a subject
             matter having to do with exploitation, injustice, and racism; they show the cruelty and disrespect
             the victims are faced with. Four Little Girls, a documentary directed by Spike Lee, is an
             example of this. He interviews those that were involved or held knowledge of the bombing at
             16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. He speaks with officials and
             professionals, preachers, family members and childhood friends of the four girls killed at this
             incident. At the same time that these interviews are going on, there are clips from the 50's and
             60's of black protesters, marches, and beatings relevant to the political and social crisis of the
             day. Also included are picture shots of the girls, including their gravestones. Lee incorporates
             the ongoing Civil Rights Movement with the story of the bombing incident and the four girls that
             The Civil Rights Movement becomes more real to us when the protagonists are also
             made real. The victims' parents tell the audience through their words, stories, and pictures, of
             who the girls were and how they lived. They also display the girls' badges, awards, certificates,
             and Bible that one had in her pocketbook the day she was in the church basement attending
             The white officials, who were more or less viewed as the antagonists, spoke of that
             same era from their point of view. Through intercuttin...