Judas and the Black Messiah

~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.

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General Information

Release Date: 2021-02-12
Budget: $26000000
Revenue: $6416063
Runtime: 125 min

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