Analysis Of Selma, Malcolm X And Mississippi Burning

The civil rights and additionally racial issues are still important topics for the 21th century in the United States, so I chose three films representing these topics- Selma, Malcolm X and Mississippi Burning. I have seen more films covering racial issues such as The Help, No way out or In the Heat of the Nigh, which significantly illustrated the racism and its effect on people. However, the mentioned first three films are also connected together through real historical figures and events, and this became for me a key fact for selection of these films I would like to write about. The reason was that I wanted to focus on stories of people who were directly participating in civil rights movement or they were somehow affected by the situation in the US during that time.
Selma and mainly Malcolm X narrate about two main figures of civil rights movement- Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm Little, who called himself as Malcolm X or also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz. Malcolm X is more or less a bibliographical film about the man fighting against racism his own way and not everybody was accustomed with his opinions and methods. On the other hand, Selma is more complex and does not tell us about life Martin Luther King, but it is about the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches, in which was King involved. The last film Mississippi Burning, shot in 1988 and directed by Alan Parker, is a story based on the real FBI investigation of three murders of civil rights workers-