Filmography
Jesse Jackson
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Self - Host, Self (uncredited)
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Self
Democracy Now!
2001 · Self (archive footage)
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005 · Actor
World in Action
1963 · Actor
A Different World
1987 · Himself
Dinah!
1974 · Self
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Cocky Locky (voice)
Explained
2018 · Self (archive footage)
The Chris Rock Show
1997 · Self
Not Necessarily the News
1983 · Self (archive footage)
Robins
2006 · Self - Guest
Baseball
1994 · Various (voice)
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009 · Actor
Tanner '88
1988 · Himself (uncredited)
Hollywood Black
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · Self
Shut Up and Dribble
2018 · Self - Civil Rights Leader
Tanner on Tanner
2004 · Self
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021 · Self
Obama
2020 · Self
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Uptight
1968 · Self (archive footage)
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999 · (archive footage)
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Self
4 Little Girls
1997 · Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016 · Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970 · Self (archive footage)
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021 · Self
A Man's Story
2011 · Self
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012 · Self (archive Footage)
Nationtime: Gary
1972 · Self
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009 · Self
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002 · Self (archive footage)
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009 · Self
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982 · Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002 · Self
Wattstax
1973 · Self
A Decade of Struggle
1980 · Self
Decade
1989 · Self
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992 · Self
South to Black Power
2023 · Self
Save the Children
1973 · Self
Route One/USA
1989 · Self
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021 · Self
Fantastic Lies
2016 · Himself (archive footage)
LA 92
2017 · Self (archive footage)
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996 · Self (archive footage)
Last Party 2000
2001 · Self
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018 · Self
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993 · Self
Hate Crimes in the Heartland
2014 · Actor
I Am MLK Jr.
2018 · Self
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007 · Self
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009 · Self
Texas, USA
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Self
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021 · Actor
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021 · Self
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973 · Self/Cameo (archive footage)
University, Inc.
1999 · Self (Archive Footage)
We Are Many
2014 · Self
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009 · Self
The Soul of Stax
1994 · Self
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009 · Actor
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983 · Self
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021 · Himself
In Remembrance of Martin
1986 · Self
A Matter of Respect
1980 · Actor
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018 · Self
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997 · Actor
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020 · Self
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999 · Self
Bernie Blackout
2020 · Self (archive footage)
Loudmouth
2022 · Self - Civil Rights Activist/Self - Baptist Minister (archive footage)
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
2020 · Self
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019 · Self
The Day the Troubles Began
2008 · Self
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988 · On Screen Narrator
Crashing the Party
2016 · Self
We Are Universal
1971 · Actor
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022 · Self
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Dear Mister President
TBA · Self
Ballou
2008 · Himself
Operation Breadbasket
1969 · Self