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1. www.nytimes.com › 1989/01/08 › moviesFILM VIEW: 'Mississippi Burning ... - The New York Times

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   Jan 8, 1989 · In this way, ''Mississippi Burning'' is both more corrosive and less soothing than Norman Jewison's ''In the Heat of the Night,'' released in 1967 when the Philadelphia, Miss., events were still ...

   • FILM; Fact vs. Fiction in Mississippi

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2. www.nytimes.com › 1989/01/08 › moviesFILM: 'Mississippi Burning': Generating ... - The New York Times

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   Jan 8, 1989 · Similarly, ''Mississippi Burning,'' which purports to chronicle an episode in the black struggle for human rights, but becomes instead fanfare for white liberals who struggle mightily on behalf of ...

3. www.nytimes.com › 1988/12/04 › moviesFILM; Fact vs. Fiction in Mississippi - The New York Times

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   Dec 4, 1988 · More than 150 F.B.I. agents ultimately descended on Neshoba County to investigate the disappearance of the civil-rights workers, two of them, Goodman and Schwerner, whites from New York, and the ...

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4. www.rogerebert.com › far-flung-correspondentsLooking Back at Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning - Roger Ebert

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   Sep 8, 2020 · 6 min read. 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 ...

5. www.civilrightsteaching.org › resource › mississippiMississippi Burning Is Still Burning: A Critical Film Review

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   Jun 19, 2023 · We cannot, as filmmakers, make heroes out of anti-heroes and expect to get away with it. Brent Staples, an African American editor with The New York Times, noted: “The weight of Mississippi Burning’s distortions crushes truth under foot. . . This story was savaged; it seems, in service of a clearly reactionary and outmoded idea: that white ...

6. collider.com › mississippi-burning-movie-true-storyThe Horrific True Story Behind ‘Mississippi Burning' - Collider

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   Jan 30, 2024 · The South in 1964 was very much as depicted in Mississippi Burning.As stated in the previously cited New York Times, police who were members of the Klan routinely covered up killings and beatings ...

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   Is Mississippi Burning a good movie?

   • 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.

   Looking Back at Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning - Roger Ebert

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   Is Mississippi Burning a true story?

   • 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. The film depicts the hostile and racist environment of the South in the 1960s, highlighting the injustices and violence faced by Black individuals and activists.

   The Horrific True Story Behind ‘Mississippi Burning' - Collider

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   Is 'Mississippi Burning' a documentary?

   • The case became one of the milestones, like the day Rosa Parks took her seat on the bus or the day Martin Luther King marched into Montgomery, on the long march toward racial justice in this country. But “Mississippi Burning” is not a documentary, nor does it strain to present a story based on the facts.

   Mississippi Burning movie review (1988) - Roger Ebert

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   Are there any murder charges in Mississippi based on 'Mississippi Burning'?

   • None served more than five. There is no Federal murder statute covering such crimes, and no state charges against the men were ever brought in Mississippi. Those are the facts - the ''true facts'' as some put it in these days of relative reality - on which the British director Alan Parker's film ''Mississippi Burning'' is based.

   FILM; Fact vs. Fiction in Mississippi - The New York Times

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   Is Mississippi Burning based on a black-led anti-apartheid movement?

   • We have films like Cry Freedom and A World Apart, both about South Africa’s Black-led anti-apartheid movement, but both focused on the trials and tribulations of white protagonists. This denial of the role of Blacks in their own struggle reaches new heights in Mississippi Burning.

   Mississippi Burning Is Still Burning: A Critical Film Review

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   What happened in Mississippi Burning?

   • The case is finally cracked in Mississippi Burning thanks to the help of the sheriff's wife (Frances McDormand), who is charmed into giving up her husband by Anderson, and the staging of a Klan retribution against one of the conspirators, Lester Cowens (Pruitt Taylor Vince), in the case.

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8. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › mississippi-burningMississippi Burning movie review (1988) | Roger Ebert

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   Crime. 128 minutes ‧ R ‧ 1988. Roger Ebert. December 9, 1988. 6 min read. Movies often take place in towns, but they rarely seem to live in them. Alan Parker ’s “Mississippi Burning” feels like a movie made from the inside out, a movie that knows the ways and people of its small Southern city so intimately that, having seen it, I know ...