Angela Davis Movies

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.

FREE ANGELA is a feature-length documentary about Angela Davis and the high stakes crime, political movement, and trial that catapults the 26 year-old...

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...

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.

"Director Yolande du Luart had been involved in Lettrist circles in France before decamping for California to study film at UCLA, where her classmates...

THE BLACK LIST: VOL. 2 profiles some of today's most fascinating African-Americans. From the childhood inspirations that shaped their ambitions, to th...

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...

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

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

The story of how the radical Huey P. Newton developed the Black Panther Party based on his 10-point program for social reform.

This celebration of African American women and their achievements features interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. Within the cont...

African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses th...

Amid an escalating war in Iraq, rising terror levels and the threat of nuclear attack, a growing body of intellectuals, religious leaders and communit...

This artful and intimate meditation on the legendary storyteller examines her life, her works, and the powerful themes she has confronted throughout h...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Between scenes from his concert in São Paulo's oft-inaccessible Theatro Municipal, rapper and activist Emicida celebrates the rich legacy of Black Bra...