Mississippi Burning

Name: Mississippi Burning
Director: Alan Parker
Genre: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1988-12-08
Duration: 2 h 8 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey

★ 7.7 1988 2h 8min Drama • Crime • Mystery • Thriller

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.