| Movie | 2021 | Punch 9 for Harold Washington | | |
| Movie | 1982 | Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip | Self - Audience Member (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2002 | Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2002 | BaadAsssss Cinema | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1999 | University, Inc. | Self (Archive Footage) | |
| Movie | 1999 | The Subtext of a Yale Education | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel | Self | |
| Movie | 2011 | A Man's Story | Self | |
| Movie | 1994 | The Soul of Stax | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2009 | The Nine Lives of Marion Barry | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Stax, le label soul légendaire | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2019 | Chicago at the Crossroad | Self | |
| Movie | 1968 | Uptight | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2008 | Ballou | Himself | |
| Movie | 2007 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory | | |
| Movie | 2013 | Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic | Self | |
| Movie | 1969 | Operation Breadbasket | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | Crashing the Party | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | Michael Jackson Memorial | Self | |
| Movie | 1983 | Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy | Self | |
| Movie | 2020 | Uncle Tom | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2018 | The Road to Mass Incarceration | Self | |
| Movie | 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2014 | We Are Many | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | MLK: The Assassination Tapes | Self (archive Footage) | |
| Movie | 2022 | Loudmouth | Self | |
| Movie | 2022 | El otro Rey de Chicago | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | 4 Little Girls | Self - Founder of the Rainbow Push Coalition | |
| Movie | 1980 | A Matter of Respect | | |
| Movie | 1988 | Jackie Robinson: An American Journey | On Screen Narrator | |
| Movie | 2023 | South to Black Power | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | Anecdotes about Fidel | | |
| Movie | 2021 | Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2016 | '85: The Greatest Team in Football History | Self | |
| Movie | 1973 | Save the Children | Self | |
| Movie | 2009 | Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | Fantastic Lies | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2018 | Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America | Self | |
| Movie | 1980 | A Decade of Struggle | Self | |
| Movie | 1993 | Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham | Self | |
| Movie | 1989 | Route One/USA | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media | Self | |
| Movie | 2020 | Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story | Self | |
| Movie | 1986 | In Remembrance of Martin | Self | |
| Movie | 1989 | Decade | Self | |
| Movie | 1972 | Nationtime | Self | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Journey of the African-American Athlete | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1973 | Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 | Self/Cameo (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2018 | I Am MLK Jr. | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | Killing Martin Luther King Jr. | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over | Self | |
| Movie | 2001 | Last Party 2000 | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | September First, Twenty-Twenty | Himself | |
| Movie | 2020 | Bernie Blackout | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1971 | We Are Universal | | |
| Movie | N/A | Dear Mister President | Himself | |
| TV Show | 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2005 | The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Robins | Self - Guest | 1 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Shut Up and Dribble | Self - Civil Rights Leader | 1 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Joy Behar: Say Anything! | | 1 |
| TV Show | 1988 | Tanner '88 | Himself (uncredited) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | The Chris Rock Show | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 1995 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child | Cocky Locky (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1987 | A Different World | Himself | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Baseball | Various (voice) | 0 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | 4 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Explained | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1974 | Dinah! | Self | 1 |
