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Please see the discussion on the talk page. | Mississippi Burning is a 1988 film based on the investigation into the real-life murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The movie focuses on two fictional FBI agents (portrayed by Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe) who investigate the murders. Image File history File links Unbalanced_scales. ...
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Alan Parker on the set of Pink Floyd The Wall Sir Alan Parker (born February 14, 1944) is a British film director, producer, writer, and actor. ...
Robert F. Colesberry was an American film and television producer and first assistant director notable for his work as a producer on the Emmy award winning miniseries The Corner and Peabody award winning The Wire for HBO. Colesberry had a recurring cameo on the wire as detective Ray Cole. ...
Chris Gerolmo is an American writer, director and singer best known for writing the film Mississippi Burning and co-creating the FX Networks military drama series Over There. ...
Eugene Allen Hackman[1] (born January 30, 1930) is an acclaimed Academy Award-winning American actor. ...
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Frances McDormand (born June 23, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American film, stage, and television actress, best known for her role as Marge Gunderson in Fargo. ...
Trevor Alfred Charles Jones (born March 23, 1949 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a South African orchestral film score composer. ...
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December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ...
The Mississippi Civil Rights Workers Murders involved the 1964 slayings of three political activists during the American Civil Rights Movement. ...
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1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ...
Eugene Allen Hackman[1] (born January 30, 1930) is an acclaimed Academy Award-winning American actor. ...
William Dafoe, Jr. ...
The film also stars Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey and Gailard Sartain, and was written by Chris Gerolmo and directed by Alan Parker. It won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Hackman), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (McDormand), Best Director, Best Film Editing, Best Picture and Best Sound. Frances McDormand (born June 23, 1957) is an Academy Award-winning American film, stage, and television actress, best known for her role as Marge Gunderson in Fargo. ...
Bradford Claude Dourif (March 18, 1950, Huntington, West Virginia) is an American Academy Award nominated actor with a popular reputation for playing deranged or unbalanced character roles. ...
Ronald Lee Ermey (born March 24, 1944) is a former U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor and later Golden Globe-nominated actor, often playing the roles of authority figures, such as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, Mayor Tilman in the Alan Parker film Mississippi Burning and Sheriff Hoyt...
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Chris Gerolmo is an American writer, director and singer best known for writing the film Mississippi Burning and co-creating the FX Networks military drama series Over There. ...
Alan Parker on the set of Pink Floyd The Wall Sir Alan Parker (born February 14, 1944) is a British film director, producer, writer, and actor. ...
The Academy Award for Best Cinematography is awarded each year to a cinematographer for his work in one particular motion picture. ...
The Academy Award for Best Actor is one of the awards given to male actors working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. ...
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The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. ...
The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. ...
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The Academy Award for Sound Mixing is an Academy Award that recognizes the finest or most aesthetic sound mixing or recording, and is generally awarded to the production sound mixers and re-recording mixers of the winning film. ...
The film has been criticized by many, including historian Howard Zinn, for its fictionalization of history. While FBI agents are presented as heroes who descend upon the town by the hundreds, in reality the FBI and the Justice Department only reluctantly protected civil rights workers and protesters and reportedly witnessed beatings without intervening.[citation needed] Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, social critic, playwright and political scientist. ...
On June 21, 2005 — 41 years to the day of the murders — Edgar Ray Killen was convicted of manslaughter in the 1964 slayings of the three civil rights workers, and was later sentenced to 60 years in prison. June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Mississippi Burning was preceded in 1975 by a television docudrama titled Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan, depicting many of the same events, and both productions follow the events portrayed in the 1990 TV-movie Murder in Mississippi. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ...
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Murder in Mississippi was a 1990 television movie which dramatised the last weeks of Civil Rights activist Michael Mickey Schwerner, and the events leading up to his disappearance (along with two other activists) and subsequent murder. ...
On the Set - Two extras hired to play Naval Reservist searchers were nearly killed in Bovina, Mississippi, when they wandered from a temporary holding area onto a high-arch railroad bridge over the Big Black River. Naturally, a freight train came along. They escaped injury by huddling on a small pedestal on the edge of the bridge.
- Scenes in the courtroom and in and around the Sheriff's office were filmed in the old Carroll County Courthouse in Vaiden, Mississippi. A dilapidated, early-19th Century structure, falling brickwork threatened principals, crew and extras. The courthouse was demolished a few years later.
- Though Alan Parker showed great patience with the bottom-rung players, there were limits. When an over-friendly male extra broke on-the-set rules to ingratiate himself with Gene Hackman, and no one could later remember exactly who it was, Parker (or the extras casting director, Shari Rhodes, at Parker's instruction) perused the extras photos and "fired" each one (i.e., no callbacks) thought to resemble the culprit.
- When filming began in 1988, people in Mississippi were excited to hear that Gene Hackman was going to for Mississippi what he had done for Indiana with the 1987 film "Hoosiers."
Big Black River is a river in the US state of Mississippi and a tributary of the Mississippi River. ...
Vaiden is a town located in Carroll County, Mississippi. ...
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