| 2018 | Poitier's Walter Lee | Self (archive footage) | ★ 0.0 |
| 2014 | Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee | Self | ★ 1.5 |
| 2013 | Betty and Coretta | Narrator | ★ 7.2 |
| 2013 | Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal | Self | ★ 10.0 |
| 2012 | Noch tausend Worte | Annie McCall | ★ 6.1 |
| 2011 | Video Girl | Valerie | ★ 6.3 |
| 2011 | Politics of Love | | ★ 3.3 |
| 2011 | The Perfect Age of Rock 'n' Roll | Miss Candy | ★ 5.4 |
| 2009 | A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School | Narrator (voice) | ★ 7.3 |
| 2009 | America | Mrs. Harper | ★ 3.5 |
| 2007 | Steam | Doris | ★ 3.1 |
| 2007 | American Gangster | Mama Lucas | ★ 7.6 |
| 2007 | All About Us | Ms. Ella | ★ 4.4 |
| 2007 | In the Shadow of Hollywood: Race Movies and the Birth of Black Cinema | Herself | ★ 6.5 |
| 2007 | Our Paul: Remembering Paul Robeson | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2006 | Discovering William Greaves | Self | ★ 7.0 |
| 2006 | No. 2 | Nanna Maria | ★ 6.0 |
| 2005 | Die Liebe stirbt nie | Nanny | ★ 5.8 |
| 2004 | Beah: A Black Woman Speaks | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2004 | TV in Black: The First Fifty Years | (archive footage) | ★ 4.0 |
| 2003 | Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | | ★ 5.9 |
| 2002 | Theater Talk: 'A Raisin in the Sun' | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2001 | Taking Back Our Town | Emelda West | ★ 1.0 |
| 2001 | Feast of All Saints | Elsie Claviere | ★ 4.7 |
| 2000 | Finding Buck McHenry | Mrs. Henry | ★ 0.0 |
| 2000 | Sommer der Freundschaft | Grandmother | ★ 5.8 |
| 1999 | The Unfinished Journey | Narrator (voice) | ★ 6.0 |
| 1999 | Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years | Annie Elizabeth 'Bessie' Delany | ★ 7.5 |
| 1999 | Baby Geniuses | Margo | ★ 4.1 |
| 1999 | Paul Robeson: Here I Stand | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1999 | Passing Glory | Mommit Porter | ★ 5.8 |
| 1998 | A Time To Dance: The Life and Work of Norma Canner | Narrator | ★ 0.0 |
| 1998 | The Wall - Abschied vom Heldentum | Mrs. Mitchell (segment "The Badge") | ★ 5.7 |
| 1998 | Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1997 | Der Zauberwunsch | Hortence | ★ 5.5 |
| 1997 | Sports on the Silver Screen | Self (archive footage) | ★ 10.0 |
| 1996 | Captive Heart: The James Mink Story | Indigo | ★ 3.8 |
| 1996 | Mr. and Mrs. Loving | Sophia | ★ 5.6 |
| 1995 | Im Sumpf des Verbrechens | Evangeline Ferguson | ★ 6.2 |
| 1995 | Tuesday Morning Ride | Jennie | ★ 6.3 |
| 1994 | Whitewash | Grandmother (voice) | ★ 6.0 |
| 1994 | The Stand | Mother Abagail Freemantle | ★ 0.0 |
| 1993 | After Goodbye | Narrator | ★ 0.0 |
| 1993 | Ein Cop und ein Halber | Rachel | ★ 4.5 |
| 1993 | The Ernest Green Story | Lydia Wilson | ★ 6.9 |
| 1992 | Color Adjustment | Narrator | ★ 6.9 |
| 1991 | Jazztime Tale | Narrator (voice) | ★ 0.0 |
| 1991 | Jungle Fever | Lucinda Purify | ★ 6.4 |
| 1990 | Purple Heart - Die Stunde des Helden | Rowena | ★ 7.0 |
| 1990 | The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson | Jackie's Mother | ★ 7.0 |
| 1990 | Die Liebe eines Detektivs | Corrine Dart | ★ 4.9 |
| 1990 | Zora is My Name! | Zora Neale Hurston | ★ 0.0 |
| 1989 | Making 'Do the Right Thing' | Self | ★ 6.7 |
| 1989 | Do the Right Thing | Mother Sister | ★ 7.8 |
| 1985 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Mrs. Grimes | ★ 6.4 |
| 1982 | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Mary Tyrone | ★ 6.0 |
| 1982 | Katzenmenschen | Female | ★ 6.0 |
| 1980 | All God's Children | Irene Whitfield | ★ 4.0 |
| 1980 | The Torture of Mothers: The Case of the Harlem Six | | ★ 0.0 |
| 1979 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Grandmother Baxter | ★ 4.2 |
| 1976 | Countdown at Kusini | Leah Matanzima | ★ 0.0 |
| 1974 | Wedding Band | Julia Augustine | ★ 0.0 |
| 1974 | It's Good to Be Alive | Ruth Campanella | ★ 6.6 |
| 1972 | Black Girl | Netta's mother | ★ 6.1 |
| 1972 | Der Weg der Verdammten | Ruth | ★ 6.2 |
| 1972 | To Be Young, Gifted and Black | Lorraine Hansberry and other assorted characters | ★ 5.0 |
| 1972 | On Merit | Narrator (voice) | ★ 0.0 |
| 1971 | The Sheriff | Sue Ann Lucas | ★ 6.0 |
| 1970 | Dann war mein Leben nicht umsonst – Martin Luther King | Self (archive footage) | ★ 7.1 |
| 1969 | Deadlock | Lucinda | ★ 0.0 |
| 1968 | Black Power | Laurie | ★ 6.5 |
| 1967 | Incident ... und sie kannten kein Erbarmen | Joan Robinson | ★ 7.3 |
| 1966 | Neighbours | Vicky Kingsbury | ★ 0.0 |
| 1963 | Gone Are the Days! | Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins | ★ 6.7 |
| 1963 | Der Balkon | Thief | ★ 5.2 |
| 1961 | Ein Fleck in der Sonne | Ruth Younger | ★ 7.7 |
| 1959 | Take a Giant Step | Christine | ★ 5.2 |
| 1959 | Virgin Island | Ruth | ★ 5.0 |
| 1958 | St. Louis Blues | Elizabeth | ★ 7.8 |
| 1957 | Ein Mann besiegt die Angst | Lucy Tyler | ★ 7.1 |
| 1954 | Go Man Go | Irma Jackson | ★ 5.7 |
| 1951 | Verschwörung im Nachtexpress | Rachel | ★ 6.8 |
| 1950 | Der Hass ist blind | Connie Brooks (uncredited) | ★ 6.9 |
| 1950 | The Jackie Robinson Story | Rae Robinson | ★ 6.4 |
| 1948 | The Fight Never Ends | | ★ 0.0 |
| 1948 | What a Guy | | ★ 0.0 |
| 1947 | Easy to Get | Drugstore Girl | ★ 0.0 |
| 1946 | Love in Syncopation | | ★ 0.0 |
| 1946 | That Man of Mine | Joan | ★ 0.0 |
