The Big Cigar

About The Big Cigar

Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton enlists an unlikely ally—Hollywood producer Bert Schneider—to elude an FBI manhunt and escape to Cuba.

Apple TV's The Big Cigar is a drama series. André Holland stars as Huey P. Newton, Alessandro Nivola as Bert Schneider, Tiffany Boone as Gwen Fontaine, and P.J. Byrne as Steve Blauner.

Its one season of 6 episodes was broadcast from May 2024 to June 2024. The story is adapted from real events.

Shelv files it under FBI, manhunt, cuba, and black panther party. In the United States it streams on Apple TV and Apple TV Amazon Channel. It carries a TV-MA rating.

Unbelievable, The Spy, and Clark make useful companions to The Big Cigar, all filed under miniseries and thriller.