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Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo that is loosely based on the 1964 murder investigation of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in Mississippi.
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.
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement.
Jun 21, 2022 · The murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 turned into one of Bureau’s biggest investigations of the era.
Jan 30, 2024 · Mississippi Burning is a popular crime thriller film from 1988, loosely based on the true story of three civil rights activists who were murdered in Mississippi in 1964.
Mississippi Burning (1988) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
When a group of civil rights workers goes missing in a small Mississippi town, FBI agents Alan Ward (Willem Dafoe) and Rupert Anderson (Gene Hackman) are sent in to investigate.
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