Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Mississippi Burning was released on VHS on July 27, 1989, by Orion Home Video. [41] A "Collector's Edition" of the film was released on LaserDisc on April 3, 1998. [ 42 ] The film was released on DVD on May 8, 2001, by MGM Home Entertainment .
The murder of the activists sparked national outrage and an extensive federal investigation, filed as Mississippi Burning (MIBURN), which later became the title of a 1988 film loosely based on the events. In 1967, after the state government refused to prosecute, the United States federal government charged 18 individuals with civil rights ...
Ermey was often typecast in authority figure roles, such as Mayor Tilman in the film Mississippi Burning (1988), Bill Bowerman in Prefontaine (1997), Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) and its prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), Jimmy Lee Farnsworth in Fletch Lives (1989), a police captain in Seven (1995 ...
The British cinematographer, who won an Oscar for “Mississippi Burning,” and was BAFTA nominated for “The Truman Show,” will receive the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Biziou ...
Alan Parker, the two-time Academy Award-nominated director behind more than a dozen indelible films such as “Mississippi Burning” and “Evita,” has died at the age of 76. The London-born ...
The Glass Menagerie, 1950; Panic in the Streets, 1950; Adventures of Captain Fabian, 1951; Drums in the Deep South, 1951; I'd Climb the Highest Mountain, 1951; Show Boat, 1951; A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
Vince made his film debut in Jim Jarmusch's Down by Law, but his scenes were edited out. He had prominent supporting roles in several major films, including a turn as a dimwitted Ku Klux Klan member in Mississippi Burning (1988), Lee Bowers in JFK (1991), and the main character's best friend in Nobody's Fool (1994).
Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographical courtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, and James Woods. The film is based on the 1994 trial of Byron De La Beckwith , a white supremacist accused of the 1963 assassination of civil rights activist Medgar Evers .