Mississippi Burning 1988 Watch Free in HD

When three civil rights workers go missing in a small Mississippi town, FBI agents with wildly different styles, Alan Ward and Rupert Anderson, are sent in to investigate. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.

Genre:

Crime, Drama, Mystery

Actors:

Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, Gailard Sartain, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Rooker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Badja Djola, Kevin Dunn, ...»

Director:

Alan Parker

Country:

United States

Release:

1988

IMDb:

7.8

Quality:

Duration:

128 min

Washington Post

"Mississippi Burning" surveys the geography of racism, sheds light on the dark night of the soul.

January 01, 2000

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Spirituality and Practice

Starts out as a vivid portrait of the Civil Rights era and ends up a cop drama in which vengeful anger is used against racist killers.

July 15, 2003

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EmanuelLevy.Com

Slick, well-acted thriller that nonetheless distorts the facts and looks at the civil rights movement from a strictly white perspective

March 29, 2009

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Time Out

For once, Parker directs without depending on flashy visual tropes.

June 24, 2006

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Hollywood Report Card

Well-acted, compelling, good script. Good message.

July 14, 2004

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Common Sense Media

Violence, profanity, lots of tension in Jim Crow crime drama

October 25, 2016

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Fort Worth Business Press

Improbable re-enactment of an investigation into long-ago outbreak of hate crimes.

June 03, 2005

Washington Post

"Mississippi Burning" speeds down the complicated, painful path of civil rights in search of a good thriller.

January 01, 2000

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Chicago Sun-Times

"Mississippi Burning" feels like a movie made from the inside out, a movie that knows the ways and people of its small Southern city so intimately that, having seen it, I know the place I'd go for a cup of coffee and the place I'd steer clear from.

January 01, 2000

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eFilmCritic.com

Hackman delivers some of the best work of his career. And this guy's been doing it for 30 years.

July 25, 2002

ColeSmithey.com

Not anywhere as good as it should be.

February 11, 2008

Variety

Parker pushes the picture along at a fervent clip, with the character scenes back-to-back with chases or violence.

June 17, 2008

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