In 1964, members of the Ku Klux Klan murdered three Civil Rights workers who had traveled to the South to encourage African-American voter registration. Examines the last three weeks in the lives of the slain activists.

Tom Hulce
as Mickey Schwerner

Jennifer Grey
as Rita Schwerner

Blair Underwood
as James Chaney

CCH Pounder
as Fannie Lee Chaney

Andre Braugher
as Dennis

Josh Charles
as Andrew Goodman

Walton Goggins
as Lyle

Greg Kinnear
as Newsreporter

John Dennis Johnston
as Hatchet-Faced Man

Donzaleigh Abernathy
as Sue