Neshoba (2008)

NESHOBA tells the story of a Mississippi town still divided about the meaning of justice 40 years after the murders of civil rights workers James Chaney Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner Although Klansmen bragged openly about what they did in 1964 no one was held accountable until 2005 when the State indicted preacher Edgar Ray Killen an 80yearold notorious racist and alleged mastermind of the killings Through intimate interviews with the families of the victims candid interviews with black and white Neshoba County Citizens and exclusive first time interviews with Killen the film explores whether healing and reconciliation are possible without telling the unvarnished truth