Mississippi Burning (1988)






Mississippi, 1964: FBI agents Ward and Anderson arrive in the small town of Jessup to investigate the disappearance of three civil rights activists. Enraged by the increasingly hostile behaviour of the local Ku Klux Klan, Ward drafts in more and more agents -and starts a war.


Books with substantial mentioning of Mississippi Burning

Melvyn Stokes
American History through Hollywood Film, From the Revolution to the 1960s
London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney, 2013

Jürgen Müller
Die besten Filme der 80er
Köln - London - Los Angeles - Madrid - Paris - Tokyo, 2005

Jonathan Hacker and David Price
Take 10, Contemporary British Film Directors
Oxford, New York, 1992

Pauline Kael
Movie Love, Complete Reviews 1988-1991
New York, NY, 1991

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1989, A Survey of the Films of 1988
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1988
pp. 210-213 info

Books with an entry on Mississippi Burning

Larry Langman and David Ebner
Hollywood's Image of the South, A Century of Southern Films
Westport, Connecticut - London, 2001