| 2023 | Zurück in die Südstaaten - Ein Black-Power-Manifest | Self | ★ 6.0 |
| 2022 | Loudmouth | Self | ★ 6.0 |
| 2022 | El otro Rey de Chicago | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2021 | Punch 9 for Harold Washington | | ★ 0.0 |
| 2021 | Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over | Self | ★ 6.5 |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self (archive footage) | ★ 7.6 |
| 2021 | September First, Twenty-Twenty | Himself | ★ 9.0 |
| 2021 | Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2021 | Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street | Self (archive footage) | ★ 7.4 |
| 2021 | Killing Martin Luther King Jr. | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2021 | Crack: Kokain, Korruption und Konspiration | Self (archive footage) | ★ 6.8 |
| 2020 | Uncle Tom | Self (archive footage) | ★ 7.8 |
| 2020 | Bernie Blackout | Self (archive footage) | ★ 7.0 |
| 2020 | Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2019 | Stax Records - Wo der Soul zu Hause ist | Self (archive footage) | ★ 0.0 |
| 2019 | Chicago at the Crossroad | Self | ★ 1.0 |
| 2018 | The Road to Mass Incarceration | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2018 | Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2018 | I Am MLK Jr. | Self | ★ 9.5 |
| 2018 | Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2016 | '85: The Greatest Team in Football History | Self | ★ 8.2 |
| 2016 | Crashing the Party | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 2016 | Fantastic Lies | Himself (archive footage) | ★ 7.2 |
| 2014 | Wir sind viele | Self | ★ 6.7 |
| 2013 | Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic | Self | ★ 7.1 |
| 2012 | Der mysteriöse Mord an Martin Luther King - Protokoll eines Attentats | Self (archive Footage) | ★ 7.4 |
| 2011 | A Man's Story | Self | ★ 6.9 |
| 2009 | Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound | Self | ★ 6.8 |
| 2009 | Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Aktivist und Rebell | Self | ★ 6.3 |
| 2009 | Michael Jackson Memorial | Self | ★ 8.0 |
| 2009 | The Nine Lives of Marion Barry | Self | ★ 5.6 |
| 2009 | Anécdotas Sobre Fidel | | ★ 0.0 |
| 2008 | Ballou | Himself | ★ 8.0 |
| 2007 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self | ★ 8.5 |
| 2002 | Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony | Self (archive footage) | ★ 6.4 |
| 2002 | BaadAsssss Cinema | Self | ★ 6.1 |
| 2001 | Last Party 2000 | Self | ★ 6.1 |
| 1999 | The Subtext of a Yale Education | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1999 | University, Inc. | Self (Archive Footage) | ★ 0.0 |
| 1997 | Vier kleine Mädchen | Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition | ★ 7.3 |
| 1997 | Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory | | ★ 10.0 |
| 1996 | The Journey of the African-American Athlete | Self (archive footage) | ★ 10.0 |
| 1994 | The Soul of Stax | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1993 | Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham | Self | ★ 6.0 |
| 1989 | Decade | Self | ★ 7.0 |
| 1989 | Route One/USA | Self | ★ 7.3 |
| 1988 | Jackie Robinson: An American Journey | On Screen Narrator | ★ 0.0 |
| 1986 | In Remembrance of Martin | Self | ★ 9.0 |
| 1983 | Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy | Self | ★ 6.0 |
| 1982 | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | Self - Audience Member (uncredited) | ★ 7.3 |
| 1980 | A Decade of Struggle | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1980 | A Matter of Respect | | ★ 0.0 |
| 1973 | Противоречивая Америка. Вера, надежда, любовь и ненависть. Фильм 2 | Self/Cameo (archive footage) | ★ 9.0 |
| 1973 | Save the Children | Self | ★ 6.0 |
| 1972 | Nationtime | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1971 | We Are Universal | | ★ 0.0 |
| 1970 | Dann war mein Leben nicht umsonst – Martin Luther King | Self (archive footage) | ★ 7.3 |
| 1969 | Operation Breadbasket | Self | ★ 0.0 |
| 1968 | Black Power | Self (archive footage) | ★ 6.5 |
