Mississippi Burning

Name: Mississippi Burning
Director: Alan Parker
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1988

Alan Parker • 128 min • 1988

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“1964. When America was at war with itself.”

Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, Gailard Sartain

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Synopsis

Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.