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Jan 8, 1989 · It's just 21 years and three months since the climax of the case that inspired the movie, when a group of white supremacists were put into the dock and charged with violating the civil rights of...
Dec 4, 1988 · Although Neshoba County, Miss., was the actual setting for the grisly events of ''Mississippi Burning'' and the locus of one of the turning points of the civil-rights struggle of the 1960's, it...
- Alan Parker
Sep 8, 2020 · Viewed in 2020, Alan Parker’s 1988 film “Mississippi Burning” is inherently flawed but undeniably compelling in its vivid and incendiary depiction of Southern racism during the 1960s. While there are a number of problematic aspects which definitely need to be addressed, the movie is still a first-rate crime thriller that skillfully ...
Jan 8, 1989 · What ''Mississippi Burning'' intends is clear from a scene disturbingly like one in ''A World Apart,'' a film set against the black struggle with apartheid in South Africa. In the closing...
Jun 19, 2023 · Reading by Judy Richardson A critical review of the film Mississippi Burning, which characterizes the local African American community as passive victims of racist violence and lifts the role of the FBI to heroic proportions.
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.
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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.
