Attack on Terror: The FBI vs. the Ku Klux Klan

This movie, almost long enough to be a mini-series, is an excellent police-procedural drama filmed in a quasi-documentary style. The crime actually happened, but I don't know enough history to say how true-to-life the movie really is. The cast is first-rate. Highly recommended.

I am pleased that IMDb will include me in the credits as an actor in this special of Quinn-Martin. I played the RED NECK with the scene in front of the Federal Building when I grab Wayne Rodgers and start the conversation with: "Your n' Fbi feller ain't ya!" He responds: "yes sir, what can I do for you?". My response (and I'll not bore you with all of it) but starts: "You kin catch them Klan up Sayville way and give em sum taste of what they been handing Nigras...etc When this was filmed in front of the San Marcos, Tx Post Office (Federal Bldg) people watching applauded!!! It was MY scene. Mr. Rodgers as I walk aways says: "Thank You very Much"...I added a line: 'TWO BIT BUNCH OF WHITE TRASH" (meaning Klu Klux Klan) and the nice Director of the film LEFT IT IN...Thanks for reading this....Tommy

This movie was the first account of the murder of the three civil rights workers I had seen and I found it fascinating. It was long but I appreciated it's thoroughness. I understand there was a legal problem in using the real names of the people involved but the events were very real indeed. Good performances all around.

I grew up - white - in Philadelphia, Mississippi, and was a teenager in town when these events happened, in 1964. The film is based on a true story, and here the story is portrayed much more accurately than in the highly-popular "Mississippi Burning" (also based, more loosely, on these events). If anything is missing in this TV movie, it's that the brutality was worse than portrayed here. If anything is misleading, it's that J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI were generally not this noble in their fighting civil rights hate crimes. The acting is also good (though the accents are not on-target; noticeable to a local). If you want to know more about this history, read the gripping books "Three Lives for Mississippi" and "Witness in Philadelphia."

I've seen this movies several times, and was able to locate a pirated copy, not to take anything out of anyone's pocket, but I get so sick and tired of waiting for Hollyweird to get films onto DVD! A classic line is when, just after the 3 civil rights workers go missing, some redneck clown is asked by a reporter his feelings, and he looks right at the camera and in a "Cletus" kind of voice says "90 Percent of the world's problems is cause by the negroes and the jews. thank you!" Most TV aired versions cut this clown out, so get a VHS or DVD boot, it's hysterical!!! And IMDb, GROW UP! The "N" word is there, you can't avoid it! Quit hiding it, and thereby legitimize it's use to hurt people. It's a WORD!!!!!That's all - Just a word. Your requirements are antiquated, at times.