Angela Davis
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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 California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.
Known for
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The Peace! (2005)
as Self
When I See Them, I See Us (2021)
Actor
Praise Song (2021)
as Self
Stamped from the Beginning (2023)
as Self
Give Me Some Sugah (2026)
Actor
13th (2016)
as Self
Davis Report (1972)
as Self
Free CeCe! (2016)
as Self
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
as Self (voice)
Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995)
as Self
Toni Morrison Remembers (2015)
as Self
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)
as Self
Criminal Queers (2013)
as Self
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary (1972)
as Self
Who Loves the Earth (1974)
as Self
MAJOR! (2015)
Actor
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
as Self
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012)
as Self
Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future (—)
as Self
Salt of the earth US (1981)
as Self/Cameo
A Place of Rage (1991)
as Self
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Für Angela (1972)
as Self
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85 (1985)
as Self
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy (1970)
as Self
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know (2024)
as Featuring
A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise (1997)
as Self
Untitled Assata Shakur Documentary (—)
as Self
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972 (1972)
as Self
Breaking Myths (2022)
as Self (archive footage)
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields (2022)
as Self
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight (2023)
Actor
The House on Coco Road (2016)
as Self
Malcolm X (1972)
as Self (archive footage)
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams (2012)
as Self
The Black List: Volume Two (2009)
as Self
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade (2020)
as Self
Queer, Broke & Amazing! (2022)
Actor
This Is Personal (2019)
as Self
Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock (1983)
as Self
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation (2010)
as Self
Police Off Campus! (1970)
as Herself
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo (1970)
Actor
Duels of History (2024)
Actor
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life (2011)
as Herself
Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California (1998)
as Narrator