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Director Shaka King's JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH offers an in-depth, humanizing look at the Black Panthers' Chicago branch, its leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), and petty thief-turned-informant William O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield). FBI agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons) forces O'Neal to join the Black Panther Party to help the bureau gain intel on the group. But as O'Neal gets entrenched in the Black Panthers' fight for racial and social liberation, he becomes more conflicted about being seen as a traitor to his people. Dominique Fishback co-stars as Hampton's fiancée, Deborah Johnson, who endures the risk of Hampton's rise to prominence while carrying his child.

2021 · 2h 5m
Director Shaka King

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Judas and the Black Messiah

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Director Shaka King's JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH offers an in-depth, humanizing look at the Black Panthers' Chicago branch, its leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), and petty thief-turned-informant William O'Neal (LaKeith Stanfield). FBI agent Roy Mitchell (Jesse Plemons) forces O'Neal to join the Black Panther Party to help the bureau gain intel on the group. But as O'Neal gets entrenched in the Black Panthers' fight for racial and social liberation, he becomes more conflicted about being seen as a traitor to his people. Dominique Fishback co-stars as Hampton's fiancée, Deborah Johnson, who endures the risk of Hampton's rise to prominence while carrying his child.

COMMON SENSE

Informative Black Panther drama has violence, language.

TOMATOMETER
Average 8.3
Reviews 358
Fresh 344
Rotten 14

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Studio
Warner Bros.
Released
2021
Run Time
2 hr 5 min
Rated
R for violence and pervasive language.
Region of Origin
United States
© 2020 Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., MACRO JWMH, LLC, Participant Media, LLC and BRON Creative USA, Corp. All Rights Reserved.

Languages

Original Audio
English, English (Australia)
Audio

English (AD, AAC, Dolby Atmos, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), French (France) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

Subtitles

English (CC), Arabic , Bulgarian , Cantonese, Traditional , Chinese, Simplified , Chinese, Traditional , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Estonian , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Hungarian , Italian (Italy) , Japanese (Japan) , Korean , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Russian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Thai , Turkish , Ukrainian

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen, to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.