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Mississippi Burning: Directed by Alan Parker. With Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif. Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
Three young men, two whites and one black, are driving down a rural Mississippi road at twilight. They are James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, civil rights workers who in the summer of 1964 were working to get blacks voting rights in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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The name "Mississippi Burning" was the name of the actual FBI case that was abbreviated MIBURN. The film doesn't mention that the Navy men who searched the swamp found the bodies of eight more murder victims, including college student civil rights workers Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, who had disappeared one month before Chaney ...
Mississippi Burning is loosely based on a real incident in which FBI agents John Proctor and Joseph Sullivan investigated the murders of three civil right workers—Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney—in the state of Mississippi in 1964.
Mississippi Burning plays loose with truth, turning the history of the civil rights movement on its head. The filmmakers shamelessly transform what was ultimately a triumph of due process and nonviolent civil disobedience into an ugly might-makes-right spectacle.
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Mississippi Burning is a very hard film to look at but a very truthful and gritty look at racism in southern Mississippi during the Civil Rights era. The story details FBI agents Rupert Anderson(Gene Hackman)and Alan Ward(Willem Dafoe) search for the killers an African-American male and two Jewish males.