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  1. 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.

  2. Jan 27, 1989 · 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.

    • (112K)
    • Crime, Drama, Mystery
    • Alan Parker
    • 1989-01-27
  3. 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.

  4. A gritty police drama based on a true story of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi. The film captures the racism, the terror and the justice of that era with subtlety and realism.

  5. 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.

    • (28)
    • Alan Parker
    • R
    • Gene Hackman
  6. Jun 21, 2022 · The charred station wagon led us to name the case “MIBURN,” for Mississippi Burning. June 24 to August 3. We launched a massive search for the young men—aided by the National Guard—through ...

  7. Mississippi Burning. Screen greats Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe co-star in this masterpiece directed by legendary filmmaker Alan Parker. In Jessup County, 1964, as three civil r...