Cast & creator
Angela Davis
Best known for Democracy Now!, Apostrophes, Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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.
Also known as: Angela Yvonne Davis, Анджела Ивонн Дэвис, Анджела Дэвис, Angela Y. Davis, Dr. Angela Davis
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film credits
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television credits
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1963–2026 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (56)
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Democracy Now!
Self (archive footage)
2001
Apostrophes
Self
1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
World in Action
1963
Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae
Self (archive footage)
2024
13th
Self
2016
Stamped from the Beginning
Self
2023Give Me Some Sugah
2026
Angela Davis: Portrait of a Revolutionary
Self
1972
The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975
Self (voice)
2011
A Huey P. Newton Story
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2001
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
Self
2020Davis Report
Self
1972
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Self
2006
Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
Self
2012
The Occupation of the American Mind
Thanks
2016
Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Self
2019
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
2022
Black Is… Black Ain’t
Self
1995The Peace!
Self
2005
The Black List: Volume Two
Self
2009Praise Song
Self
2021
Criminal Queers
Self
2013
Who Loves the Earth
Self
1974
When I See Them, I See Us
2021
Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday
Self (archive footage)
2020Assignment America
Breaking Myths
Self (archive footage)
2022
Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight
2023Yari Yari: Black Women Writers and the Future
Self
Malcolm X
Self (archive footage)
1972
La conférence des femmes - Nairobi 85
Self
1985
Free CeCe!
Self
2016
The House on Coco Road
Self
2016
Walter Rodney: What They Don’t Want You to Know
Featuring
2024
Toni Morrison Remembers
Self
2015
A Place of Rage
Self
1991
Salt of the earth US
Self/Cameo
1981
Herbert's Hippopotamus: Marcuse and Revolution in Paradise
Self
1997
Queer, Broke & Amazing!
2022
Angela Davis Is at Your Mercy
Self
1970
George Jackson/San Quentin Prison 1972
Self
1972
Pieces of Lives, Pieces of Dreams
Self
2012Untitled Assata Shakur Documentary
Self
Untitled Assata Shakur Documentary
Executive Producer
Gotta Make This Journey: Sweet Honey in The Rock
Self
1983Für Angela
Self
1972
This Is Personal
Self
2019
Race Class Gender
Novel
2021
Occhio privato sul nuovo mondo
1970Blind Eye to Justice: HIV+ Women Incarcerated in California
Narrator
1998
Duels of History
2024
Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields
Self
2022Police Off Campus!
Herself
1970
Mountains That Take Wing: Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama- A Conversation on Life, Struggles, and Liberation
Self
2010
Visions of Abolition: From Critical Resistance to a New Way of Life
Herself
2011