The FBI did nothing of the sort, nullifying this film's credentials.

Rating: Null/10 (10 November 2003)

Unfortunately, I can not appreciate a film that portrays the blacks in the mid-1960's as down-trodden and reliant on northern whites at all. Cinematics and acting become null when the message of a film distorts the truth so horribly. The Federal Bureau of Investigation certainly did not gather in masses in Mississippi to fight for blacks; it instead blackmailed leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to stop Civil Rights marches. Blacks relied on groups such as SCLC, SNCC, and the Black Panthers to raise themselves against Southern oppression. Sorry, Alan Parker, but you have successfully made and popularized a movie that is a real blow for the dignity of the Civil Rights Movement.