Angela Davis Movies

We choose to build with one another in a shoulder to shoulder struggle against state-sanctioned violence. A violence that is manifest in the speed of...

Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European...

James Earl Jones narrates this fascinating and moving documentary about the life of the assassinated black leader through various sources.

Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison is America's first lady of literature. Her books encompass black American history but live and breathe in the...

Yari Yari -- Black Women Writers and the Future: An International Conference on Literature by Women of African Descent was held at New York...

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...

Director Kyle Provencio Reingold moves beyond the public mythology of the artist to reveal the quieter spaces between Betye Saar's remarkable career...

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...

Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls....

An intimate documentary exploration of heritage and history against the backdrop of a brewing Afro-centric revolution as the U.S. government prepares...

“In 2015, Jason Silverman and Samba Gadjigo released the acclaimed feature documentary SEMBÈNE!, on the life and career of Ousmane...

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...

In an Argentina divided between a deep conservatism and an unprecedented momentum in feminism, the film delves into the political journey and...

Courtesy of The Freedom Archives 1972, 28 min. This extraordinary video is from a 16mm film “work print” made in 1971–1972, and...

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,...

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...

Algerian director Hamid Benamra turns his focus to Mustapha Boutadjine, a charming, mercurial collage artist in Paris whose very work methods embody...

Angela Davis visiting the German Democratic Republic. A film about the people she met and her impressions.

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...

CeCe McDonald survived a brutal attack, only to be incarcerated for defending her life. After an international movement to free her, CeCe emerged as...