| 2026 | Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream | Self (archive footage) |
| 2025 | Breakdown: 1975 | Self (archive photo) |
| 2025 | Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc. | Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley | Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump | Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | America's Woman | Self |
| 2024 | The Beach Boys | Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | Faye | Self - Civil Rights Leader (archive footage) (as Martin Luther King) |
| 2024 | Zeitgeist: Requiem | Self (archive footage) |
| 2024 | Becoming King | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Origin | Self (archive voice) |
| 2023 | Four Died Trying: Prologue | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight | |
| 2023 | Jim Crow: The History of Africans in America | |
| 2023 | Stand | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | The Universe | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Say Hey, Willie Mays! | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream | |
| 2022 | The Janes | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | A History of the World According to Getty Images | Self (Archive Footage) |
| 2022 | Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | The Art of Dissent | Self - Subject (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror | Self (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self - Activist (archive footage) |
| 2021 | Killing Martin Luther King Jr. | Self |
| 2020 | The Soul of America | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | MLK/FBI | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade | Self |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self (archive Footage), Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2020 | Killing John F. Kennedy | Self (archive footage) |
| 2020 | The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | England 79 | |
| 2019 | Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Mike Wallace Is Here | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Geek, and You Shall Find | Self (voice) |
| 2019 | Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation | Self |
| 2019 | Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der Wahl | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Hesburgh | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | The Green Book: Guide to Freedom | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | The Corporate Coup D'État | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2018 | Robert Penn Warren: A Vision | |
| 2018 | 1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | I Am MLK Jr. | Self |
| 2018 | Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | King in the Wilderness | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | August 28: A Day in the Life of a People | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Burn Motherfucker, Burn! | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Chasing Trane | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) |
| 2017 | I Am Not Your Negro | Self (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Dolores | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | 13th | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Året var 1966 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | We Have A Dream | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Imminent Threat | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Listen to Me Marlon | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2015 | Children of the Civil Rights | Self (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Klansville U.S.A. | Self (archive Footage) |
| 2014 | Freedom Summer | Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | An American Ascent | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Speeches That Shook the World | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Året var 1963 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Martin Luther King and the March on Washington | Self |
| 2012 | The House I Live In | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2012 | MLK: The Assassination Tapes | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Ethel | Self (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Picture Me Rollin' | Self (voice) |
| 2011 | J. Edgar | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2010 | 2012: Time for Change | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2010 | COINTELPRO 101 | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Roads to Memphis | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | When You're Strange | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Capitalism: A Love Story | Self (archive footage) |
| 2009 | Stand | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | The Day the Troubles Began | Self |
| 2008 | The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306 | Self |
| 2008 | James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene | self - archival footage |
| 2007 | L'altra Dallas - Chi ha ucciso RFK? | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | ...So Goes the Nation | Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Bobby | Self (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Never Lose Sight of Freedom | |
| 2005 | No Direction Home: Bob Dylan | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Citizen King | Self (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Mighty Times: The Children's March | Self (archive footage) |
| 2003 | The Corporation | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks | Self (archive footage) |
| 2002 | Naqoyqatsi | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2002 | Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2002 | The Year That Trembled | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2000 | The American Nightmare | Self |
| 1999 | Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games | Self (archive footage) |
| 1997 | Martin Luther King: Days of Hope | Self |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1996 | Blue Eyed | Self (archive footage) |
| 1996 | All Power to the People! | Self (archive footage) |
| 1995 | Nixon | (Archive footage) |
| 1994 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective | Self (archive footage) |
| 1992 | The Real Malcolm X | |
| 1992 | Death Scenes 2 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1992 | Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century | |
| 1991 | The Doors | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1986 | In Remembrance of Martin | Self |
| 1985 | Disasters of the Century | Self (archive footage) |
| 1985 | Good Intentions | Self (Archival Footage) |
| 1981 | The Killing of America | Self (archive footage) |
| 1979 | The War at Home | Self (archive footage) |
| 1978 | James Brown Soul Brother No. 1 | |
| 1973 | Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 | Self/Cameo (archive footage) |
| 1973 | Today: While You Were Away (1964-1973 Retrospective) | Self (archive footage) |
| 1970 | Владыки без масок. Гарольд Хант - апостол «ультра» | Self (archive footage) |
| 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) |
| 1969 | Martin Luther King, Jr: From Montgomery to Memphis | Self |
| 1968 | LBJ | Self |
| 1967 | Martin Luther King at Newcastle University | Self |
| 1967 | 13 November 1967: Martin Luther King Interview | |
| 1967 | After Civil Rights... Black Power | Self |
| 1967 | I Am Curious (Yellow) | Himself |
| 1966 | Anno Domini MCMLXV | Self (archive footage) |
| 1965 | The Bus | |
| 1964 | The March | Self |
| 1964 | Wealth of a Nation | Self |
| 1964 | Union and Freedom | Himself |
| 1963 | I Have a Dream | Self |
| 1963 | David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr | himself |
| 1963 | The Negro and the American Promise | |
| 1960 | Integration Report 1 | Self |
