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Angela Davis
Additional CreditsBorn January 26, 1944 (81 years)
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.
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Filmography
| 2025 | Chaos: The Manson Murders · as Self - Activist |
| 2024 | Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae (TV Series) · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2023 | Stamped from the Beginning · as Self |
| 2022 | Roberta · as Self |
| 2022 | Making Black America: Through the Grapevine (TV Series) · as Self - University Of California Santa Cruz |
| 2022 | Quebrando Mitos · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2022 | La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Our Bodies Are Your Battlefields · as Self |
| 2021 | Walter Kaufmann - Welch ein Leben! · as Self |
| 2021 | The Last Movie Ride · as Self |
| 2021 | The Legacy of Black Wall Street (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2021 | Urban One Honors 2021 · as Self |
| 2021 | |
| 2020 | 29th Annual Trumpet awards · as Self |
| 2020 | Emicida: AmarElo - It's All for Yesterday · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Between the World and Me · as Self |
| 2020 | |
| 2020 | Aretha Franklin: Soul Sister · as Self |
| 2020 | GMA3: What You Need to Know (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods · as Self |
| 2019 | This Is Personal · as Self |
| 2019 | Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am · as Self |
| 2019 | I Am Richard Pryor · as Self |
| 2018 | Rest In Power: The Trayvon Martin Story (TV Series) · as Self - Activist, Author |
| 2018 | What Is Democracy? · as Self - Scholar And Activist |
| 2018 | Red Table Talk (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2018 | Mr. Soul! · as Self |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | Dolores · as Self - Activist, Scholar |
| 2016 | 13th · as Self |
| 2015 | The Empire Files (TV Series) · as Self - Author, Scholar And Activist |
| 2015 | Black and Cuba · as Self |
| 2014 | Out in the Night · as Self |
| 2013 | |
| 2013 | Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth · as Self |
| 2012 | Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary · as Self |
| 2012 | Occupy Unmasked · as Self |
| 2012 | Free Angela and All Political Prisoners · as Self |
| 2012 | Finding Your Roots (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2011 | Black Girls Rock! 2011 · as Self |
| 2011 | The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 · as Self (voice) |
| 2011 | |
| 2006 | The U.S. vs. John Lennon · as Self |
| 2005 | The Peace! DVD · as Self |
| 2004 | George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2004 | Le grand journal de Canal+ (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | imagine... (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2003 | XXI Century (TV Series) · as Self - University Of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2001 | Democracy Now! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Fidel · as Self |
| 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited) |
| 1999 | Independent Lens (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1994 | Black Is... Black Ain't · as Self |
| 1992 | Malcolm X · as Self - Giving Black Power Salute At Olympics |
| 1991 | A Place of Rage · as Self |
| 1989 | The Arsenio Hall Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1988 | P.O.V. (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1987 | Eyes on the Prize (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1983 | |
| 1981 | Salt of the earth US · as Self/cameo |
| 1975 | Apostrophes (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1972 | Malcolm X · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1963 | World in Action (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) · as Self - Activist |