
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.
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13th (2016)
as Self

Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary (1972)
as Self
The Peace! (2005)
as Self

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)
as Self (archive footage)

Malcolm X (1972)
as Self (archive footage)

Black Is… Black Ain’t (1995)
as Self

A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
as Self

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 (2011)
as Self (voice)

Free CeCe! (2016)
as Self

Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012)
as Self

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019)
as Self
Davis Report (1972)
as Self
Praise Song (2021)
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Criminal Queers (2013)
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The Black List: Volume Two (2009)
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Stamped from the Beginning (2023)
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Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Police Off Campus! (1970)
as Herself

George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972 (1972)
as Self

When I See Them, I See Us (2021)
Actor

A Place of Rage (1991)
as Self
Für Angela (1972)
as Self

Toni Morrison Remembers (2015)
as Self

Duels of History (2024)
Actor

Breaking Myths (2022)
as Self (archive footage)

Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy (1970)
as Self

Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams (2012)
as Self

Salt of the earth US (1981)
as Self/Cameo

Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight (2023)
Actor

Who Loves the Earth (1974)
as Self

Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise (1997)
as Self

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade (2020)
as Self

The House on Coco Road (2016)
as Self

Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock (1983)
as Self

This Is Personal (2019)
as Self
Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California (1998)
as Narrator

La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85 (1985)
as Self

Queer, Broke & Amazing! (2022)
Actor

Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know (2024)
as Featuring
Untitled Assata Shakur Documentary (—)
as Self

Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields (2022)
as Self

Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation (2010)
as Self
Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future (—)
as Self

Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life (2011)
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