Angela Davis
Born
January 26, 1944 (81 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Birmingham, 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
Duels of History
2024
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
Featuring
2024
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023
Stamped from the Beginning
Self
2023
Breaking Myths
Self (archive footage)
2022
Queer, Broke & Amazing!
2022
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Self
2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
2022
Praise Song
Self
2021
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
Self (archive footage)
2020
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
Self
2020
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Self
2019
This Is Personal
Self
2019
13th
Self
2016
The House on Coco Road
Self
2016
Toni Morrison Remembers
Self
2015
Criminal Queers
Self
2013
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Self
2012
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
Self
2012
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Self (voice)
2011
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
Self
2010
The Black List: Volume Two
Self
2009
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Self
2006
The Peace!
Self
2005
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
Self
1997
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Self
1994
A Place of Rage
Self
1991
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85
Self
1985
Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock
Self
1983
Salt of the earth US
Self/Cameo
1981
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · (1 episode)
1975
Apostrophes
Self · (1 episode)
1975
Wer die Erde liebt
Self
1974
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
1972
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
Self
1972
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
Self
1972
Davis Report
Self
1972
Police Off Campus!
Herself
1970
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy
Self
1970
Assignment America
(1 episode)