Angela Davis

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 California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

Known For

Apostrophes

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

World in Action

13th

Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Free Angela and All Political Prisoners

Malcolm X

All Movies (45)

• Duels of History2024
• Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know2024 · as Featuring
• Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight2023
• Stamped from the Beginning2023 · as Self
• Breaking Myths2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• Queer, Broke & Amazing!2022
• Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields2022 · as Self
• La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• When I See Them, I See Us2021
• Praise Song2021 · as Self
• Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade2020 · as Self
• Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am2019 · as Self
• This Is Personal2019 · as Self
• 13th2016 · as Self
• Free CeCe!2016 · as Self
• The House on Coco Road2016 · as Self
• Toni Morrison Remembers2015 · as Self
• Criminal Queers2013 · as Self
• Free Angela and All Political Prisoners2012 · as Self
• Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams2012 · as Self
• The Black Power Mixtape 1967-19752011 · as Self (voice)
• Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life2011 · as Herself
• Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation2010 · as Self
• The Black List: Volume Two2009 · as Self
• The U.S. vs. John Lennon2006 · as Self
• The Peace!2005 · as Self
• A Huey P. Newton Story2001 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California1998 · as Narrator
• Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise1997 · as Self
• Black Is… Black Ain’t1995 · as Self
• A Place of Rage1991 · as Self
• La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 851985 · as Self
• Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock1983 · as Self
• Salt of the earth US1981 · as Self/Cameo
• Who Loves the Earth1974 · as Self
• Malcolm X1972 · as Self (archive footage)
• Für Angela1972 · as Self
• Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary1972 · as Self
• George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 19721972 · as Self
• Davis Report1972 · as Self
• Police Off Campus!1970 · as Herself
• Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy1970 · as Self
• Untitled Assata Shakur Documentary— · as Self
• Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future— · as Self

All TV Shows (5)

• Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae2024 · as Self (archive footage)
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche1975 · as Self
• Apostrophes1975 · as Self
• World in Action1963
• Assignment America—