
A documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.... (Full plot summary below)
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A documentary that chronicles the life of young college professor Angela Davis, and how her social activism implicates her in a botched kidnapping attempt that ends with a shootout, four dead, and her name on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
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| Maven's NestNora Lee MandelFascinating eye-opener that not only brings history alive, but reverberates into today's controversies over guns, government surveillance, racial profiling, and media frenzy. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaAn all too sobering reminder of how, in the purported land of the free, any voices deemed radical and hence dangerous can lead the powers that be to find any remote angle to silence them by whatever force and means they deem necessary. |
| User ReviewKeya AWorth watching over and over again. I was blessed enough to meet Miss Davis and have a long discussion about the state of black America. Awesome! |
| User Reviewanre gWell scripted documentary outlining the history of one of the most influential activist and leader of our time. A look back in time and how one woman stood up to fight back against an unjust system. That she garnered such global support was awe inspiring. Hopefully this instills such a confidence in others to stand up against many of the injustices and social ills still plaguing this country and the world today. |
| User ReviewJuggernaut LGreat documentary that focuses on the choice she made in the early seventies that took her from an outsider of the civil rights movement to an inspirational turning point of human rights in America and the world. The film doesn't spent time on her growing up but jumps right into who she is, what she thought, why she is a threat, and how she fought through. Great to watch for a perspective on the agenda to make civil rights pioneers disappear and discredited. |
| User ReviewSusan LGreat documentary. I show it to my students and they really enjoy it and engage with it. |
| User ReviewTyese BExcellent documentary about an amazing activist and intellectual. Angela Davis is an inspiration. |
| User ReviewDan CWow. Not a lot of love from users and this is curious. This documentary is well crafted in its exploration of the limits of free speech and what is deemed "acceptable" free speech during particular phases in American history. |
| User ReviewGina WInteresting documentary about Angela Davis and her affiliation with the Communist Party and Black Panthers. She was on the FBI's ten most wanted list after Marin County Judge Harold Haley murder. The movie shows interviews with Davis where she downplays her role in the murder. Very interesting. |
| User ReviewOla SIt seems so extremely long ago since there was a revolutionary US movement to the left. The member maybe most known over the world was Angela Davis, communist, for a short while philosophy teacher at UCLA and charged for murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. This documentary is like a thriller. Davis returns from philosophy studies in Germany, is fired from UCLA by its board there Governor Ronald Reagan is a member, dedicates herself to prisoners' rights, falls in love with one of them. Than comes the disaster. That prisoner is involved in a court drama, there a judge is murdered and jury members injured and some of the guns are owned by Davis. The reasons for her buying guns are the threats she has received and she showed her ID when buying them. That's the main point for the defence. Davis, the university philosophy teacher is by definition not stupid. She wouldn't get the guns that way if she was part of a terrorist conspiration. Well-made movie about what can absolutely not be called present history. Although it was only 40 years ago. |