Mississippi Burning – Detective film on Télé 7 Jours

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Mississippi, summer 1964. Three young civil rights activists, one black and two white, who came to establish a voter registration center for blacks, mysteriously disappear. Two FBI agents, Rupert Anderson, a man from the South, flexible, advised and experienced in field methods, and Alan Ward, a brittle and intransigent Yankee, are in charge of the investigation. Ward’s methods arouse strong reactions from the Ku Klux Klan, whose responsibility in the case of the disappeared is soon no longer the shadow of a doubt. Violence erupts. Explosions and fires defy the law and its representatives. Anderson decides to react before it’s too late…