She was a philosophy professor. Then she was #1 on the FBI's most wanted list. What happened?
The story of how, in 1970, the social activism of young UCLA philosophy professor Angela Davis led her to become involved in a failed kidnapping attempt that ended in a shootout, four deaths, and her name on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.
Direction
Shola Lynch lets Davis narrate her own myth-debunking with zero hand-holding.
Editing
Seamless weaving of courtroom audio, news footage, and present-day reflection.
Production
Archival access that feels almost illegally intimate — the prison letters!
Director
Shola Lynch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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