Good movie fiction based on historical fact

Rating: Null/10 (9 May 2004)

During a racial stressful time in our country a tragic occurrence happened in east-central Mississippi that still stands as an unsolved mystery. This movie is very loosely based on those events. A lot of literary license was taken for dramatic effect.
I was in the middle of this time frame. The highway between the two counties passes by my house. I was 12 years old at the time & watched the newspaper stories and national news coverage try to untangle this web of deceit & mistrust.
Good people were intimidated. Good people were named as intimidators. The people of Mississippi are trying to heal this wound, but it seems certain peoples wish for it to fester again.
Yesterday, I drove down that road in which they were murdered. There are few houses on that road even now, although it paved. No markers, no indications whatsoever, give a hint of that awful tragedy in our nation's history. People drive down that road from all over the area weekly & probably don't even know its history.
I only hope that whomever watches this movie keeps in mind of the effect that HOLLYWOOD was trying to display. There are numerous books written about the events, please research before accepting this movie as is for actual facts about the incidences concerning racial strife in east-central Mississippi in the summer of 1964.