5 Films & TV Shows Set In Mississippi During The 1970s
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Life
Mississippi New York The 1930s The 1970s The 1990s The 1940sShare it with someone you love. — Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
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The War
Mississippi The 1970sThe son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
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Freedom on My Mind
Mississippi The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sIn 1961 Mississippi was a virtual South African enclave within the United States. Everything is segregated. There are virtually no black voters. Bob Moses, enters the state and the Voter Registration Project begins. The first black farmer who attempts to register is fatally shot by a Mississippi State Representative. But four years later, the registration is open. By 1990, Mississippi has more elected black officials than any other state in the union.
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Mississippi Masala
Mississippi 🇺🇬 Uganda The 1970s The 1990sPassion. Tradition. Mix it up. — An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.
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The Jerk
Mississippi Missouri The 1970sA rags to riches to rags story. — After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
