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Angela Davis

Angela Davis

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Born: January 26, 1944Birmingham, Alabama, USA

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
Filmography
Duels of History

Duels of History

2024
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know

Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know

Featuring

2024
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight

2023
Stamped from the Beginning

Stamped from the Beginning

Self

2023
Breaking Myths

Breaking Myths

Self (archive footage)

2022
Queer, Broke & Amazing!

Queer, Broke & Amazing!

2022
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields

Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields

Self

2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Self (archive footage)

2022

Praise Song

Self

2021
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday

Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday

Self (archive footage)

2020
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

Self

2020
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

Self

2019
This Is Personal

This Is Personal

Self

2019
13th

13th

Self

2016
The House on Coco Road

The House on Coco Road

Self

2016
Toni Morrison Remembers

Toni Morrison Remembers

Self

2015
Criminal Queers

Criminal Queers

Self

2013
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

Self

2012
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams

Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams

Self

2012
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Self (voice)

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

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

Herself

2011
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation

Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation

Self

2010
The Black List: Volume Two

The Black List: Volume Two

Self

2009
The U.S. vs. John Lennon

The U.S. vs. John Lennon

Self

2006

The Peace!

Self

2005
A Huey P. Newton Story

A Huey P. Newton Story

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

2001

Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California

Narrator

1998
Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise

Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise

Self

1997
Black Is… Black Ain’t

Black Is… Black Ain’t

Self

1995
A Place of Rage

A Place of Rage

Self

1991
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85

La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85

Self

1985
Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock

Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock

Self

1983
Salt of the earth US

Salt of the earth US

Self/Cameo

1981
Who Loves the Earth

Who Loves the Earth

Self

1974
Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Self (archive footage)

1972

Für Angela

Self

1972
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary

Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary

Self

1972

Davis Report

Self

1972
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972

George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972

Self

1972

Police Off Campus!

Herself

1970
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy

Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy

Self

1970