Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Murder in Mississippi (Television program : 1990)

Title:

Murder in Mississippi / producer, Mark M. Wolper ; written by Stanley Weiser ; directed by Roger Young.

Publisher, Date:

Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, [2018]

Description:

1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration. Examines the last three weeks in the lives of the slain activists.

Target Audience Note:

Not rated.

Subjects:

Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964 -- Drama.

Bender, Rita L. -- Drama.

Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964 -- Drama.

Chaney, James Earl, 1943-1964 -- Drama.

Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- 20th century -- Drama.

African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi -- Drama.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi -- Drama.

Lynching -- Mississippi -- Drama.

Mississippi -- Race relations -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Made-for-TV movies.

Biographical television programs.

Historical television programs.

Fiction television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Wolper, Mark M., producer.

Weiser, Stanley., screenwriter.

Young, Roger, 1942- film director.

Grey, Jennifer, 1960- actor.

Hulce, Tom, 1953- actor.

Underwood, Blair, actor.

Charles, Josh, 1971- actor.

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990.

4x3 (1.33:1).