By Any Means

By Any Means (2026) is a historical crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM — directed by Elegance Bratton and set deep in 1960s Mississippi. A young Black FBI agent, played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, arrives to investigate a string of murders targeting civil rights leaders. The Bureau hits a dead end. So someone makes the call that probably shouldn't be made.

The solution is Greg Scarpa — a mob enforcer Mark Wahlberg plays as cool, pragmatic, and genuinely dangerous — whom the FBI ran as an undercover informant during that era. The film is grounded in that documented chapter of American law enforcement: federal agents quietly leveraging organized crime to reach places legal procedure couldn't. Giancarlo Esposito, David Strathairn, and Nicole Beharie keep the moral arithmetic from ever fully resolving.

Bratton, who landed Sundance recognition with The Inspection (2022), frames this as less a buddy pairing than a study in parallel methods: two men after the same outcome by very different means. Stream By Any Means (2026) online on iFILM.