- LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian
2026 Greef Karga (voice)
- The Life of Chuck
2025 Sam Yarbrough
- Captain America: Brave New World
2025 Isaiah Bradley
- I'm Charlie Walker
2022 Willie
- Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021 Isaiah Bradley (archive footage)
- Doctor Sleep
2019 Dick Halloran
- Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
2019 Miles Davis (voice)
- A Cure for Wellness
2017 Mr. Wilson
- Love Twice
2016 Rodrigo
- Justice League: Gods and Monsters
2015 Silas Stone (voice)
- Quitters
2015 Dr. Weiss
- Justice League: Doom
2012 Martian Manhunter (voice)
- Nominated
2010 Ray Cowan
- Black Panther
2010 Uncle S'Yan
- The Alphabet Killer
2008 Dr. Ellis Parks
- Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007 Samuel Nujoma
- Justice League: Starcrossed - The Movie
2004 J'onn J'onzz (voice)
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 Other Voices (voice)
- Sounder
2003 The Father
- Justice League: Paradise Lost
2003 J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter (voice)
- Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 Nat Turner - Gray
- Warming by the Devil's Fire
2003 Narrator
- Just a Dream
2002 J.M. Hoagland
- Justice League: Secret Origins
2001 J'onn J'onzz (voice)
- The Color of Friendship
2000 Ron Dellums
- Little Richard
2000 Bud Penniman
- Men of Honor
2000 Mac Brashear
- Border Line
1999 Detective Mollo
- The Wedding
1998 Lute McNeil
- How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998 Judge Spencer Boyle
- Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero
1998 Additional Voices (voice)
- Buffalo Soldiers
1997 John Horse
- The Ditchdigger's Daughters
1997 Donald Thornton
- America's Dream
1996 Cal (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black")
- Nightjohn
1996 Nightjohn
- Out of Darkness
1994 Addison
- On Promised Land
1994 Floyd Ween
- M.A.N.T.I.S.
1994 Dr. Miles Hawkins
- Cagney & Lacey: The Return
1994 Marcus Petrie
- Back to the Streets of San Francisco
1992 Charlie Walker
- South Central
1992 Ali
- Brother Future
1991 Denmark Vessy
- Eyes of a Witness
1991 Mambulu
- Pacific Heights
1990 Lieutenant Lou Baker
- Moe's World
1990
- To Sleep with Anger
1990 Junior
- Everybody's All-American
1988 Narvel Blue
- Judgment in Berlin
1988 Edwin Palmer
- The Bedroom Window
1987 Quirke
- Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8
1987 Bobby Seale
- The Gospel at Colonus
1985 Theseus
- The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984 John Parker
- Caveman
1981 Bork
- Lifepod
1981 Keshah
- Undercover with the KKK
1979 Rev. Lowell
- Escape from Alcatraz
1979 Inmate
- A Grim Life
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