
Mississippi Burning
- released:1988-12-08
- genres: Drama, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
- duration:128m
- casts: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey
- Country: United States of America
- Production: Orion Pictures, Frederick Zollo Productions
overview
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.