Mississippi Burning
(1988)
Director:
Alan Parker
Writer:
Chris Gerolmo
Cast:
Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand
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.