Mississippi Burning

7.7

United States Of America

Drama Crime

128 min

1988

Stephen Bridgewater Paul Henderson Ken Magee Rick Washburn Daniel Chapman Ed Geldart Robert F. Colesberry Tonea Stewart Mark Jeffrey Miller Tobin Bell Lou Walker Darius McCrary Dan Desmond Park Overall Bob Penny Gene Hackman Marc Clement Rick Zieff Geoffrey Nauffts Frankie Faison Kevin Dunn Badja Djola Pruitt Taylor Vince Michael Rooker Stephen Tobolowsky Gailard Sartain R. Lee Ermey Brad Dourif Frances McDormand Willem Dafoe

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.