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Judas and the Black Messiah

20212h 5mDrama · History
directed by Shaka King

“You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution.”

6.2 / 10 Compare with…9 stills

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6.2 / 10
TMDB
7.3 / 10
1,714 votes
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7.4 / 10
113,927 votes
Metacritic
84 / 100
Rotten Tomatoes
96%

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Synopsis

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya·Fred Hampton
LaKeith Stanfield·Bill O'Neal
Jesse Plemons·Roy Mitchell
Dominique Fishback·Deborah Johnson
Ashton Sanders·Jimmy Palmer
Algee Smith·Jake Winters
Darrell Britt-Gibson·Bobby Rush
Lil Rel Howery·Wayne
Dominique Thorne·Judy Harmon
Martin Sheen·J. Edgar Hoover

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