| Movie | 1989 | Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt | Self - News Reporter (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2004 | Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1986 | Rag Dolly in the U.S.S.R. | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2016 | Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2007 | 1968 with Tom Brokaw | Himself | |
| Movie | 2006 | This Film Is Not Yet Rated | Self - 1978 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2008 | Run for Your Life | Himself | |
| Movie | 2013 | All the President's Men Revisited | Self (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2020 | Katarina Witt - Weltstar aus der DDR | Self | |
| Movie | 2002 | The Bush White House: Inside the Real West Wing | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | Crashing the Party | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | RBG | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2023 | And the King Said, What a Fantastic Machine | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2007 | Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | Iverson | | |
| Movie | 2005 | Last Best Chance | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State | Self | |
| Movie | 1986 | Mount Rushmore: The Shrine | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2002 | NBC 75th Anniversary Special | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | America's Library | Self | |
| Movie | 2022 | They Volunteered for This: Merrill's Marauders | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2014 | D-Day: Normandy 1944 | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2013 | Home for the Holidays: Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Orchestra at Temple Square | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | Our Time | | |
| Movie | 1999 | When the Wall Came Tumbling Down: 50 Hours That Changed the World | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Mike Wallace Is Here | (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2011 | Hey, Boo: Harper Lee & To Kill a Mockingbird | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | Untold: Caitlyn Jenner | Self - NBC News Anchor (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1995 | Spin | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2010 | America: The Story of Us | Himself | |
| Movie | 2006 | Paul Conrad: Drawing Fire | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2022 | Endangered | | |
| Movie | 2001 | Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack | himself | |
| Movie | 2015 | The Making of Trump | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1992 | Commercial Entertainment Product | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2015 | 41 on 41 | Self | |
| Movie | 2006 | Deep Throat: The Full Story of Watergate | Self | |
| Movie | 2024 | Biden's Decision | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2011 | iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | Schabowskis Zettel - Die Nacht, als die Mauer fiel | Tom Brokaw | |
| Movie | 2017 | Oscar Arias: Without a Shot Fired | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | Reflections on the Vietnam War | Host | |
| Movie | 2017 | The Newspaperman: The Life and Times of Ben Bradlee | Self | |
| Movie | 2002 | Vertical Frontier | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2017 | Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | King | Host | |
| Movie | 2017 | Hamilton: Building America | | |
| Movie | 2018 | Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | We Are Columbine | Himself | |
| Movie | 2025 | The Gettysburg Address | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | Frank Capra's American Dream | Self (voice) | |
| Movie | 2002 | Journeys with George | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2017 | LA 92 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2018 | 1968 | Self | |
| Movie | 2007 | Everything's Cool | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2019 | Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Cola Wars | Self [Archival Footage] | |
| Movie | 2018 | The Front Runner | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2021 | Black Art: In the Absence of Light | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2004 | Celsius 41.11 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1993 | Barbarians at the Gate | Self | |
| Movie | 1996 | Nichols and May: Take Two | Self | |
| Movie | 2003 | Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2024 | Trump's Big FUSS: Fight for US Sovereignty | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2006 | NBC News Presents: Survivor: The Aron Ralston Story | Himself | |
| Movie | 2018 | The Mayo Clinic | Self | |
| Movie | 2001 | On Common Ground | Self - Commentator | |
| Movie | N/A | Off Your Duff | Self | |
| TV Show | 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | 8 |
| TV Show | 1952 | Today | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | The View | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | The Colbert Report | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | 8 |
| TV Show | 1968 | 60 Minutes | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1986 | American Masters | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2023 | Bill Russell: Legend | Self - Author, Journalist & Longtime Admirer of Bill | 1 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Explained | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2023 | Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2017 | The Nineties | Self (archive footage) | 2 |
| TV Show | 2016 | Jackie Robinson | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | America: The Story of Us | Self | 9 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Buccaneers & Bones | Narrator | 49 |
| TV Show | 1981 | Entertainment Tonight | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Fiasco | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Late Night with Jimmy Fallon | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2020 | Challenger: The Final Flight | Self (archive footage) | 2 |
| TV Show | 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | 1 |
