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
Series
Democracy Now!
Self (archive footage)
2001
Series
Democracy Now!
Self
2001
Series
Apostrophes
Self
1975
Series
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Series
World in Action
1963
Film
Stamped from the Beginning
Self
2023
Series
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
Self (archive footage)
2024
Film
13th
Self
2016
Film
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Self (voice)
2011
Give Me Some Sugah
2026
Film
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
Self
1972
Film
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Self
2006
Film
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
2022
Film
The Black List: Volume Two
Self
2009
Film
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Self
2012
The Peace!
Self
2005
Film
A Huey P. Newton Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
Film
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
1972
Film
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Self
1995
Praise Song
Self
2021
Film
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Self
2019
Film
Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise
Self
1997
Film
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
Self (archive footage)
2020
Film
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023
Film
Breaking Myths
Self (archive footage)
2022
Assignment America
Film
Who Loves the Earth
Self
1974
Film
Criminal Queers
Self
2013
Davis Report
Self
1972
Film
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
Self
2020
Film
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
Film
A Place of Rage
Self
1991
Film
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85
Self
1985
Film
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
1970
Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future
Self
Film
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy
Self
1970
Film
This Is Personal
Self
2019
Film
Salt of the earth US
Self/Cameo
1981
Film
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
Self
2012
Film
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
Featuring
2024
Film
Free CeCe!
Self
2016
Film
The House on Coco Road
Self
2016
Film
Duels of History
2024
Für Angela
Self
1972
Film
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
Self
1972
Film
Queer, Broke & Amazing!
2022
Untitled Assata Shakur Documentary
Self
Film
Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock
Self
1983
Film
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation
Self
2010
Film
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
Herself
2011
Film
Toni Morrison Remembers
Self
2015
Film
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Self
2022
Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
Narrator
1998
Police Off Campus!
Herself
1970