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You can watch Uptight (1968) for free on Fawesome.

Set against the backdrop of a community mourning the recent MLK assassination, Black militants building up an arsenal of weapons in preparation for a race war are betrayed by one of their own.

Can a group of revolutionaries survive the paranoia of a traitor while the city burns in the wake of King's death? This tense social thriller captures the suffocating pressure of radicalism and the inevitable fracture of trust within a movement.