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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners [Available Feb. 26 via streaming on MUBI.] Shola Lynch's eye-opening, powerful, educational, insightful, thought-provoking, ire-inducing, 102-minute, 2012 political documentary that chronicles the life of Afro-wearing, Communist Party member, Black Panther Party member, activist, and college philosophy professor Angela Davis whose social reform and civil rights movement involvement landed her on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List and in prison when she is arrested for her role in a jailbreak attempt that went awry and involved a shootout that ultimately killed six people, follows her closely watched controversial trial, and consists of archival photographs, film clips, news footage, and candid commentary by Black Panthers Party co-founders Huey Newton and Bobbe Seale, Black Panthers Party deacon Franklin Alexander, Lt. Governor Ed Reinecke, UCLA chancellor Charles Young, photographers Stephen Shames and Roger Barkrath, journalists (such as Earl Caldwell, David Weir, and Elisabeth Coleman), classmate Lowell Bergman, prosecutor Albert Harris, defense attorneys (such as Howard Moore, Leo Branton, Margaret Burnham, and Doris Walker), FBI agent Robert McCartin, professor Michael Tigar, judge Richard E. Arnason, defense organizer Bettina Aptheker, childhood friend Margaret Burnham, and family, including mother Sallye Davis, sister Fania Davis, and brother Reginald Davis.   Redhead: Year: 2022 Rating:  NR View Free Angela and All Political Prisoners on the Internet Movie Database