Fooling THE FEDS

How a fake movie helped Black Panther founder Huey P. Newton escape the FBI

The Big Cigar NEW 

Available: Friday 17 May Genre: Drama Season: 1 Episodes: 6 (first two episodes from Friday 17 May, then weekly)

America in the 1970s was a time of immense political, social and cultural change. Now, the turbulent decade provides the backdrop to the stranger-than-fiction true story of how Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton tried to escape the clutches of the FBI.

Apple TV+ six-parter The Big Cigar follows Newton and his college buddy Bobby Seale, who founded the Black Panthers, a revolutionary organisation that promoted armed self- defence for Black citizens to protect against police brutality.