Angela Davis Movies

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...

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...

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...

Thirteen years, two inspiring women, both radical activists-one conversation. MOUNTAINS THAT TAKE WING is a historically rich and unique documentary...

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

Directed by one of Davis' former students, the documentary shows Davis speaking at public rallies and interacting with her students, as well as...

Inspired by Angela Davis's 'Women, Race, and Class,' the film examines the intersecting struggles of race, class, and gender through the raw and...

A documentary dedicated to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students held in East Berlin in the summer of 1973.

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

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

"Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight" covers renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work “Drifting Toward...

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,...

After Mexico 75 and Copenhagen 80, the United Nations choose the Dark Continent for the Third International Women’s Conference. Running in...

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

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...

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...

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...