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

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Daniel Kaluuya

    Fred Hampton

  2. Cast 1

    LaKeith Stanfield

    Bill O'Neal

  3. Cast 1

    Jesse Plemons

    Roy Mitchell

  4. Cast 1

    Dominique Fishback

    Deborah Johnson

  5. Cast 1

    Ashton Sanders

    Jimmy Palmer

  6. Cast 1

    Algee Smith

    Jake Winters

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    Darrell Britt-Gibson

    Bobby Rush

  8. Cast 1

    Lil Rel Howery

    Wayne

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    Dominique Thorne

    Judy Harmon

It’s a bummer when a film has an important historical story to tell but the finished product just isn’t very good. Such is the case with “Judas and the Black Messiah,” director Shaka King‘s take on the true story of charismatic Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) and FBI informant William O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), the man who infiltrated the African-American organization in Illinois in the late 1960s. It’s an interesting account of true events about two very important figures in our nation’s history, and the racial justice issues are just as relevant today. But topical m...