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Mississippi Burning (1988)

R128 minDrama, Crime

7.7 / 10

1,700 votes

Budget: $15MRevenue: $35M

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.

Directed by Alan Parker