84 Films & TV Shows Set In Mississippi
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Kermit's Swamp Years
Mississippi FloridaHis true story, warts and all. — At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.
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Town & Country
Idaho New York MississippiThere's no such thing as a small affair. — Porter Stoddard is a well-known New York architect who is at a crossroads... a nexus where twists and turns lead to myriad missteps some with his wife Ellie, others with longtime friends Mona and her husband Griffin. Deciding which direction to take often leads to unexpected encounters with hilarious consequences.
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LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton
MississippiFor as long as she can remember, LaLee Wallace's family has picked cotton. — This heartbreaking documentary depicts the extreme poverty of an African-American family and their Mississippi Delta school district. LaLee's Kin takes us deep into the Mississippi Delta and the intertwined lives of LaLee Wallace, a great-grandmother struggling to hold her world together in the face of dire poverty, and Reggie Barnes, superintendent of the embattled West Tallahatchie School System. The film explores the painful legacy of slavery and sharecropping in the Delta.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Mississippi The 1930sThey have a plan... but not a clue. — In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's 'Odyssey'.
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My Dog Skip
Mississippi The 1940sEvery family needs an optimist. — A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on the best-selling Mississippi memoir by the late Willie Morris.
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X-Men
New York District of Columbia Mississippi 🇵🇱 Poland Africa - General 🇨🇦 Canada The 2000s The 1940sEvolution Begins — Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
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Freedom Song
Mississippi The 1960sA father, a son and a movement that would change America forever. — Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of the Freedom Summer, a group of high school students in the small town are eager to make grassroots changes in their own community. The young activists meet resistance not only from white southerners, but from their parents, who have experienced firsthand the violence that can result from speaking out.[1] As high school students band together with the support of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, they make strides in registering African-American voters and gaining awareness for their cause.
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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 Insider
New York Kentucky MississippiTwo men driven to tell the truth … whatever the cost. — Tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series exposé of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand.
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Cookie's Fortune
MississippiWelcome to Holly Springs... home of murder, mayhem and catfish enchiladas. — Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
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The Tempest
Mississippi The 1850s The 1860sAn adaptation of Shakespeare's classic is set in the Mississippi bayous during the Civil War.
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Down in the Delta
Illinois MississippiSometimes, the last place you expected to be is the one place you've always belonged... — A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer.
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Hope
Mississippi The 1960sThe story of a town's secret, a family's crisis, and a young girl's struggle to reveal the truth. — The story of a town's secret, a family's crisis, and a young girl's struggle to reveal the truth.
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A Time to Kill
MississippiExperience a time you'll never forget. — A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
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The Chamber
MississippiTime is running out. — Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has never met.
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Ghosts of Mississippi
Mississippi The 1960s The 1980sA forgotten crime. An impossible case. A final chance... for justice. — In this film based on actual events, black activist Medgar Evers is murdered in 1963, and much of the evidence points toward white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith. However, after two trials, De La Beckwith is acquitted twice by a jury of whites. Now, decades later in 1989, Evers' widow, Myrlie, thinks she has evidence to finally convict him. But no lawyer will touch the case except the young and brash Bobby DeLaughter.
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Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored
MississippiThis film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.
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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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Broadway Bound
Mississippi The 1950sNeil Simon's "Broadway Bound" is the Final Chapter of his acclaimed trilogy that began with "Biloxi Blues" and "Brighton Beach Memoirs".
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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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Murder in Mississippi
Mississippi The 1960sIn 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.
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Great Balls of Fire!
England Mississippi Tennessee New York Kentucky The 1950s The 1940sThe true story of a legend. — The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unconventional lifestyle often brought him into conflict with others in the industry, and even earned him the scorn and condemnation of the public.
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Leningrad Cowboys Go America
🇲🇽 Mexico New York Tennessee Texas Louisiana Mississippi 🇷🇺 RussiaThe Leningrad Cowboys, a group of Siberian musicians, and their manager, travel to America seeking fame and fortune. As they cross the country, trying to get to a wedding in Mexico, they are followed by the village idiot, who wishes to join the band.
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Miss Firecracker
MississippiAn explosive comedy! — A girl from Yazoo City, Mississippi pins all her hopes on winning the local beauty pageant.
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