Angela Davis
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4615 |
| Birthday | 1944-01-26 |
| Place of Birth | Birmingham, Alabama, USA |
| Also Known As | Angela Yvonne Davis, Анджела Ивонн Дэвис, Анджела Дэвис, Angela Y. Davis, Dr. Angela Davis, |
1972
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
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Courtesy of The Freedom Archives 1972, 28 min. This extraordinary video is from a 16mm film “work print” made in 1971–1972, and includes interviews w...
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2006
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
6.7/72
A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.
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The U.S. vs. John Lennon
1972
Malcolm X
6.667/15
James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.
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Malcolm X
2012
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
7.1/27
The story of how, in 1970, the social activism of young UCLA philosophy professor Angela Davis led her to become involved in a failed kidnapping attem...
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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
1985
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85
0/0
After Mexico 75 and Copenhagen 80, the United Nations choose the Dark Continent for the Third International Women’s Conference. Running in parallel to...
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2023
Stamped from the Beginning
6.523/22
Using innovative animation and expert insights, this documentary based on Ibram X. Kendi's bestseller explores the history of racist ideas in America.
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2024
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
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An original circa 72-minute documentary featuring a murder, Cold War conspiracies, Black Power, the end of the Empire, and how that connects to the po...
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2023
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
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"Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight" covers renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward Twilight”— commissioned by The H...
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Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2022
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
7.5/4
In an Argentina divided between a deep conservatism and an unprecedented momentum in feminism, the film delves into the political journey and intimate...
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Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
1998
Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
0/0
An experimental documentary, this work is unique as it portrays the injustices of the California prison system as seen through the eyes of HIV+ women...
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Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
7.2/4
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions wa...
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2011
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
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Weaving together the voices of women entangled in the criminal justice system, along with leading scholars on prison abolition, this film provides a c...
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Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
2011
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
7.6/42
Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in US society from 1967 to 1975. It features footage of the movement shot by Swedish journalists in...
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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
2016
13th
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An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
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1972
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
8/1
Directed by one of Davis' former students, the documentary shows Davis speaking at public rallies and interacting with her students, as well as coveri...
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Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
2012
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
0/0
Algerian director Hamid Benamra turns his focus to Mustapha Boutadjine, a charming, mercurial collage artist in Paris whose very work methods embody r...
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2009
The Black List: Volume Two
6/1
THE BLACK LIST: VOL. 2 profiles some of today's most fascinating African-Americans. From the childhood inspirations that shaped their ambitions, to th...
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1970
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy
8/2
In the aftermath of the arrest of Angela Davis, Jean Genet reads a text denouncing racist US policy, supporting the Black Panthers party and Angela Da...
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Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy
1974
Who Loves the Earth
6.333/3
A DEFA documentary celebrating the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students, held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973. Blending reportage with stage...
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Who Loves the Earth
2016
The House on Coco Road
6.7/3
An intimate documentary exploration of heritage and history against the backdrop of a brewing Afro-centric revolution as the U.S. government prepares...
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The House on Coco Road
2001
A Huey P. Newton Story
5.4/10
The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.
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A Huey P. Newton Story
1991
A Place of Rage
4.5/4
Featuring enlightening interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan, and Alice Walker, this essential documentary is an exuberant celebration of Black Am...
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A Place of Rage
1995
Black Is… Black Ain’t
5.833/12
African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses th...
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Black Is… Black Ain’t
2019
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
7.5/15
This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works, and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout h...
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
2005
The Peace!
5/2
Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and communit...
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The Peace!
2010
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation
6/1
Thirteen years, two inspiring women, both radical activists-one conversation. MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING is a historically rich and unique documentary a...
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Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation
2015
Toni Morrison Remembers
0/0
Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America's first lady of literature. Her books encompass black American history but live and breathe in the present...
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2020
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
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Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European inv...
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1981
Salt of the earth US
8/1
United States of America, early 1980s. From the height of a fifty-story building located in the center of New York on a granite cliff in Manhattan, pe...
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2019
This Is Personal
8/1
While the 2016 election catalyzed the Women’s March and a new era of feminist activism, Tamika Mallory and Erika Andiola have been fighting for their...
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This Is Personal
2020
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
8.6/58
Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of Black Bra...
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Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
2013
Criminal Queers
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Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that pri...
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Criminal Queers
1983
Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock
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This vibrant and engaging video profiles the a capella activist group, Sweet Honey in the Rock. Singing to end the oppression of Black people world wi...
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1970
Police Off Campus!
0/0
Police Off Campus! Was produced and directed by the students of the UCLA Motion Picture and Television Division following a large protest at UCLA on M...
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Police Off Campus!
2022
Queer, Broke & Amazing!
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An inspiring exploration of the struggles and triumphs of low-income LGBTQ+ people and their communities in the queer coastal meccas of the U.S. and p...
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Queer, Broke & Amazing!
2022
Breaking Myths
7.9/4
“Breaking Myths” aims to open the world’s eyes to the fragile and “catastrophic masculinity” of Brazil’s current President Jair Bolsonaro, a fanatical...
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2021
Praise Song
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“In 2015, Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo released the acclaimed feature documentary SEMBÈNE!, on the life and career of Ousmane Sembène. For the fo...
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1997
Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise
9.5/2
Documentary about the turbulent life, writings, and activism of philosopher Herbert Marcuse, visionary force for the youth movements worldwide during...
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2024
Duels of History
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From Lucrezia Borgia to Malinche to Marie Curie: Women’s contributions have often been downplayed or misrepresented in the history books. Duels of His...
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1972
Davis Report
0/0
Angela Davis visiting the German Democratic Republic. A film about the people she met and her impressions.
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Untitled Assata Shakur Documentary
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Assata Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, was a member of the Black Liberation Army and had been a fugitive sought by the U.S. since escaping pri...
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1972
Für Angela
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Angela Davis visited the GDR in late summer 1972. For months, people all over the world had fought for her release. In Berlin, Leipzig, and Magdeburg,...
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Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future
10/1
Yari Yari -- Black Women Writers and the Future: An International Conference on Literature by Women of African Descent was held at New York University...
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