Angela Davis
Known for Acting
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
13th
2016
as Self
Malcolm X
1972
as Self (archive footage)
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2011
as Self (voice)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022
as Self (archive footage)
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
2012
as Self
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Black List: Volume Two
2009
as Self
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
2020
as Self (archive footage)
The House on Coco Road
2016
as Self
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020
as Self
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2019
as Self
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
2006
as Self
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
1972
as Self
Black Is… Black Ain’t
1995
as Self
Stamped from the Beginning
2023
as Self
The Peace!
2005
as Self
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
2022
as Self
This Is Personal
2019
as Self
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
1972
as Self