Judas and the Black Messiah dvd

Judas and the Black Messiah is a 2021 American biographical drama film about the betrayal of Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya), chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in late-1960s Chicago, at the hands of William O’Neal (played by Lakeith Stanfield), an FBI informant. Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lil Rel Howery, Algee Smith, Dominique Thorne, and Martin Sheen also star. The film is directed and produced by Shaka King, who wrote the screenplay with Will Berson, based on a story by the pair and Kenny and Keith Lucas.

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton, chairman of the Black Panther chapter in Chicago
Lakeith Stanfield as William “Bill” O’Neal, an FBI informant who infiltrates the Black Panther Party
Jesse Plemons as Roy Mitchell, O’Neal’s FBI Special Agent handler
Dominique Fishback as Deborah Johnson, Hampton’s girlfriend and a Black Panther member
Ashton Sanders as Jimmy Palmer, a Black Panther member
Algee Smith as Jake Winters, a Black Panther member
Darrell Britt-Gibson as Bobby Rush, co-founder of the Black Panther Party chapter in Chicago
Lil Rel Howery as Wayne, an undercover FBI agent
Dominique Thorne as Judy Harmon, a Black Panther member
Martin Sheen as J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI
Amari Cheatom as Rod Collins, leader of the Crowns, a fictionalized version of a Chicago gang[5]
Nick Fink as Fesperman
Khris Davis as Steel, a Crowns member
Ian Duff as Doc Stachel
Caleb Eberhardt as Bob Lee
Robert Longstreet as Special Agent Carlyle, Mitchell’s FBI colleague
Amber Chardae Robinson as Betty Coachman
Nicholas Velez as José Cha Cha Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords group
Terayle Hill as George Sams, a Black Panther chairman
Jermaine Fowler (uncredited) as Mark Clark, a Black Panther member