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.
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as Agent Rupert Anderson
as Agent Alan Ward
as Mrs. Pell
as Deputy Clinton Pell
as Mayor Tilman
as Sheriff Stuckey
as Townley
as Frank Bailey
as Lester Cowens
as Agent Monk
kevin2019
Apr 19, 2024
"Mississippi Burning" has both insight and intelligence and it is an incredibly uncompromising scrutinization of how racism blighted American society and it is frightening to think the residents of Jessop in Mississippi possess minds much smaller than their town. This film also prompts you to seriously examine your own conscience in relation to the…
CinemaSerf
Apr 28, 2024
When three men go missing from their small-town Mississippi home, the FBI sends a team to investigate. "Anderson" (Gene Hackman) is very much the more hands-on of the pair leading the team, with "Ward" (Willem Dafoe) more inclined to play by the book. Their arrival exposes them to an open culture of racial hatred that's not only tolerated by the lo…
