Mississippi Burning (1988) Tubi TV

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6. Yup, that's the one.

It was directed by Clint Eastwood whose politics are pretty right wing. And so he invented this whole absurd plot line with federal government "bureaucrats" trying for some reason to blame Sully for the crash.

That entire scene with the review board was made up. Eastwood even had to change the names of the characters, since the actual people who reviewed the crash threatened to sue for libel if he went forward with the film as originally planned. The whole notion of the review board going after Sully, that whole computer simulation scene, never happened.

So, again, people who saw the movie and take it as truth come away pissed off at evil federal regulators who tried to frame this genuine all-American hero. Which was what Eastwood no doubt wanted all along. Like his debating the empty chair at the Republican National Convention--pretending it was President Obama--he set up a straw man to further his conservative agenda.

The fact that the movie was actually quite entertaining makes what he did all the more sinister.