- The Batman: Part II
2028 Lt. James Gordon
- The Wizard of the Kremlin
2026 Rowland
- Samo Lives
2026
- Highest 2 Lowest
2025 Paul Christopher
- The Phoenician Scheme
2025 Marty
- Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025 Bp. Langstrom
- Atrabilious
2024 Vincent Daugherty
- Rustin
2023 Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
- American Fiction
2023 Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
- Asteroid City
2023 General Gibson
- The Batman
2022 Lt. James Gordon
- Say Hey, Willie Mays!
2022 Jackie Robinson (voice)
- Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special
2021 The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
- Monster
2021 Mr. Harmon
- The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun
2021 Roebuck Wright
- No Time to Die
2021 Felix Leiter
- All Day and a Night
2020 JD
- The Oedipus Project
2020 Tiresias
- The Public
2019 Anderson
- The Goldfinch
2019 James 'Hobie' Hobart
- Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook
2019 Narrator (voice)
- The Laundromat
2019 Malchus Irvin Boncamper
- Age Out
2018 Detective Portnoy
- Hold the Dark
2018 Russell Core
- O.G.
2018 Louis Menkins
- Moynihan
2018 Narrator (voice)
- We Are Not Done Yet
2018 Producer
- Game Night
2018 FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)
- Unseen Enemy
2017 Narrator (voice)
- Confirmation
2016 Charles Ogletree
- The Gospel According to Mac
2015 Narrator (voice)
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 Beetee Latier
- The Good Dinosaur
2015 Poppa (voice)
- The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 Beetee Latier
- Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink
2014 Narrator (voice)
- Forgotten Four: The Integration of Pro Football
2014 Narrator (voice)
- Broken City
2013 Carl Fairbanks
- Only Lovers Left Alive
2013 Dr. Watson
- A Single Shot
2013 Simon
- The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
2013 Henry
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 Beetee Latier
- The Ides of March
2011 Senator Thompson
- Source Code
2011 Dr. Rutledge
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011 William Black
- W.
2008 Colin Powell
- Quantum of Solace
2008 Felix Leiter
- Chicago 10
2008 Bobby Seale (voice)
- Cadillac Records
2008 Muddy Waters
- The Invasion
2007 Dr. Stephen Galeano
- Blackout
2007 Nelson
- New Orleans
2007 Narrator (voice)
- Lady in the Water
2006 Mr. Dury
- Casino Royale
2006 Felix Leiter
- Blood Diamonds
2006 Narrator (voice)
- Syriana
2005 Bennett Holiday
- Broken Flowers
2005 Winston
- Lackawanna Blues
2005 Mr. Paul
- The True Story of Hannibal
2005 Narrator (voice)
- The Manchurian Candidate
2004 CPL Al Melvin
- With All Deliberate Speed
2004 Narrator (Voice)
- Sin's Kitchen
2004 Rex
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004 Other Voices (voice)
- Sam Cooke: Legend
2003 Narrator (voice)
- D-Tox
2002 Jaworski
- Ali
2001 Howard Bingham
- Boycott
2001 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Shaft
2000 Peoples Hernandez
- Hamlet
2000 Gravedigger
- Cement
2000 Ninny
- Crime + Punishment in Suburbia
2000 Chris
- Ride with the Devil
1999 Daniel Holt
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues
1999 Sidney Bechet
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920
1999 Sidney Bechet
- The Giraffe
1999 Win
- Celebrity
1998 Greg
- Too Tired to Die
1998 Balzac Man
- Critical Care
1997 Rafael ("Bed Two")
- Basquiat
1996 Jean Michel Basquiat
- Faithful
1996 Young Man at Rolls
- Jumpin' at the Boneyard
1991 Derek
- Separate but Equal
1991 William Coleman
- Presumed Innocent
1990 Prosecuting Attorney
- Death of a Salesman
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