Mississippi Burning

Name: Mississippi Burning
Released: 1988

Alan Parker

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Synopsis

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.

Year1988

CountryUnited States

DirectorAlan Parker

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