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.
Filmography
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Give Me Some Sugah
2026
Duels of History
2024
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
2024
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Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023
Stamped from the Beginning
2023
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Breaking Myths
2022
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Queer, Broke & Amazing!
2022
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
2022
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
as Self (archive footage)
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
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Praise Song
2021
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Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
2020
as Self (archive footage)
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020
as Self
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019
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This Is Personal
2019
as Self
13th
2016
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Free CeCe!
2016
as Self
The House on Coco Road
2016
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Toni Morrison Remembers
2015
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Criminal Queers
2013
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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
2012
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Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
2012
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2011
as Self (voice)
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
2011
as Herself