Frances McDormand, as the wife of one of the guilty rednecks, is most effective as the film`s moral conscience. ”Mississippi Burning” is playing at the McClurg Court and Old Orchard Theaters.

The film simmered in a gloomy stew of suicide ... You may not know it from Ghost of Mississippi or Mississippi Burning, but Mississippians fall in love, date, get married, have children, lose ...

The killings were depicted in "Mississippi Burning," a fictional 1988 film based on the real-life FBI investigation into the case. Killen, who died less than a week from his 93rd birthday ...

Historians say the outcry over the incident, which was portrayed in the 1988 Oscar-winning film "Mississippi Burning," helped win support for subsequent civil rights legislation, including the ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Edgar Ray Killen, a 1960s Ku Klux Klan leader who was convicted decades later in the "Mississippi Burning" slayings of three civil rights workers, has died in prison at the ...

The film is a gripping psychological thriller ... slowly unraveling under paranoia and guilt. IMDb Score: 7.8 In Mississippi Burning, Hackman plays FBI Agent Rupert Anderson, who, alongside ...