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- The film is based on a true story, the disappearances of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, three young civil rights workers who were part of a voter registration drive in Mississippi.
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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.
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Sep 8, 2020 · Although their names are never mentioned throughout the film and they are merely named as “Goatee,” “Passenger,” and “Black Passenger” in the end credits, these activists in the film are clearly based on real-life civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, whose sudden disappearance in Mississippi ...
Jan 30, 2024 · What is the real story that inspired the Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe-led crime thriller Mississippi Burning?
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The film is based on a true story, the disappearances of Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, three young civil rights workers who were part of a voter registration drive in Mississippi.
Parker’s passionate story portrays the racial tension in the American south at the beginning of the 1960s and the plot of the film is actually based on a true story—the murders of three civil rights activists in Mississippi.
Oct 27, 2020 · Based on true events, Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe play FBI agents investigating the disappearance of Civil Rights activists in Mississippi. Rooker plays a vile racist and one of the men connected to the case.
Based on a true story, the film takes place in 1964 (my birth year, incidentally) in a small town ugly and virulent with racism. The good ol' boy sheriff and his stoolies ambush and in cold blood murder three civil rights workers.
