| Movie | 1984 | Weather Report Live In Tokyo | himself | |
| Movie | 1988 | Carlos Santana and Wayne Shorter – Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival | Himself | |
| Movie | 2000 | Santana: Supernatural Live | Self | |
| Movie | 2004 | Santana: Hymns for Peace - Live at Montreux | | |
| Movie | 1978 | Weather Report: Live in Offenbach 1978 | Himself | |
| Movie | 1975 | Weather Report: Live in Berlin | | |
| Movie | N/A | Michel Petrucciani Power of Three | Himself | |
| Movie | 2005 | Santana: In Concert | Self - Saxophone | |
| Movie | 2011 | Tribute to Miles - Jazz a Vienne | Himself | |
| Movie | 2010 | Wayne Shorter 4tet - Jazz à Vienne | Himself | |
| Movie | N/A | Miles Davis Quintet In Berlin 1969 | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate: 75th | himself | |
| Movie | 2023 | Elis & Tom: It Had to be You | Self | |
| Movie | 2013 | Miles Davis: Live in Europe 1969 | himself | |
| Movie | 2011 | Miles Davis: Around Midnight | Saxophone (Tenor) | |
| Movie | 1994 | The Great Music Experience | Nara City, Japan 1994 | Self | |
| Movie | 1987 | Bobby McFerrin: Spontaneous Inventions | Himself | |
| Movie | 2015 | Jaco | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Self - Musician | |
| Movie | 2016 | Miles Ahead | Live Concert Band | |
| Movie | N/A | Wayne Shorter Quartet - Jazz in Marciac | | |
| Movie | N/A | Weather Report - Live 1971 TV | Themself | |
| Movie | 2017 | Chasing Trane | Self - Musician | |
| Movie | 2003 | Joni Mitchell: Woman of Heart and Mind | Self | |
| Movie | 1990 | The Blue Note Collection - The Manhattan Project | Sax soprano | |
| Movie | 1976 | Weather Report: Live at Montreux | Saxophones | |
| Movie | 2019 | Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | I Called Him Morgan | Self | |
| Movie | 1990 | The World According to John Coltrane | Himself | |
| Movie | 2018 | It Must Schwing: The Blue Note Story | Self | |
| Movie | 1971 | Weather Report Live In Hamburg 1971 | Himself | |
| Movie | 2015 | Marcus | Self | |
| Movie | 1999 | Classic Albums: Steely Dan - Aja | Self | |
| Movie | 2020 | Universe | | |
| Movie | 2012 | The Language of the Unknown: A Film About the Wayne Shorter Quartet | | |
| Movie | 2010 | Miles Davis: Copenhagen Live 1969 | | |
| Movie | 1996 | Wayne Shorter: Live at Montreux 1996 | Saxophone | |
| Movie | 1964 | Miles Davis Quintet: Milan 1964 | | |
| Movie | 1986 | Before Midnight | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | N/A | Miles Davis Quintet – Live In Copenhagen & Rome 1969 | Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone | |
| TV Show | 2015 | StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2023 | Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 1978 | The Kennedy Center Honors | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Classic Albums | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1971 | Great Performances | Self | 1 |
