2021 2h 5m Shaka King

Judas and the Black Messiah

Name: Judas and the Black Messiah
Genre: Drama, History, Crime
Released: 2021
Rating: 7.4
Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback

★ 7.4 IMDb

Drama History Crime

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.

Writers Shaka King, Will Berson

Cast Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback

DP Sean Bobbitt

Production Designer Sam Lisenco and Rebecca Brown

Music Mark Isham

Essays and Criticism

On this film

Judas and the Black Messiah by Mary F. Corey, Cineaste LaKeith Stanfield: ‘There’s a big fear about people of colour being… by Sophie Monks Kaufman, Little White Lies

In conversation with other films

Gag Orders: The Trial of the Chicago 7 and Judas and the Black Messiah by Andrew Tracy, Cinema Scope

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