Angela Davis
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Biography
Angela Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests include prisoner rights; she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She was a professor (now retired) at the University of Cal...
Known For
Filmography
Give Me Some Sugah
2026
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
2024
as Featuring
Duels of History
2024
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
2024
as Self (archive footage)
Stamped from the Beginning
2023
as Self
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
2022
as Self
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Queer, Broke & Amazing!
2022
Breaking Myths
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Praise Song
2021
as Self
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020
as Self
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
2020
as Self (archive footage)
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019
as Self
This Is Personal
2019
as Self
13th
2016
as Self
The House on Coco Road
2016
as Self
Free CeCe!
2016
as Self
Toni Morrison Remembers
2015
as Self
Criminal Queers
2013
as Self
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
2012
as Self
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
2012
as Self
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
2011
as Herself
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2011
as Self (voice)
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation
2010
as Self
The Black List: Volume Two
2009
as Self
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
2006
as Self
The Peace!
2005
as Self
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Democracy Now!
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
1998
as Narrator
Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise
1997
as Self
Black Is… Black Ain’t
1995
as Self
A Place of Rage
1991
as Self
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85
1985
as Self
Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock
1983
as Self
Salt of the earth US
1981
as Self/Cameo
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
as Self
Apostrophes
1975
as Self
Who Loves the Earth
1974
as Self
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
1972
as Self
Malcolm X
1972
as Self (archive footage)
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
1972
as Self
Davis Report
1972
as Self
Für Angela
1972
as Self
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy
1970
as Self
Police Off Campus!
1970
as Herself
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
1970
World in Action
1963