Sidney Poitier
- The Last Brickmaker in America
2001 Henry Cobb
- The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
1999 Noah Dearborn
- Free of Eden
1999 Will Cleamons
- David and Lisa
1998 Dr. Jack Miller
- Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
1998 Reverend Msimangu (archive footage)
- The Jackal
1997 Carter Preston
- Mandela and de Klerk
1997 Nelson Mandela
- To Sir, with Love II
1996 Mark Thackeray
- Sneakers
1992 Crease
- Separate but Equal
1991 Thurgood Marshall
- Ghost Dad
1990 Director
- Shoot to Kill
1988 Warren Stantin
- Little Nikita
1988 Roy Parmenter
- Fast Forward
1985 Director
- Hanky Panky
1982 Director
- Stir Crazy
1980 Director
- Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist
1979 Narrator (voice)
- A Piece of the Action
1977 Director
- The Wilby Conspiracy
1975 Shack Twala
- Let's Do It Again
1975 Director
- Uptown Saturday Night
1974 Director
- A Warm December
1973 Director
- Buck and the Preacher
1972 Director
- The Organization
1971 Virgil Tibbs
- Brother John
1971 John Kane
- They Call Me Mister Tibbs!
1970 Virgil Tibbs
- The Lost Man
1969 Jason Higgs
- Three Young Americans in Search of Survival
1969 Himself
- For Love of Ivy
1968 Original Story
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967 John Prentice
- In the Heat of the Night
1967 Det. Virgil Tibbs
- To Sir, with Love
1967 Mark Thackeray
- Duel at Diablo
1966 Toller
- The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965 Simon of Cyrene
- A Patch of Blue
1965 Gordon Ralfe
- The Bedford Incident
1965 Ben Munceford
- The Slender Thread
1965 Alan Newell
- The Long Ships
1964 Aly Mansuh
- Lilies of the Field
1963 Homer Smith
- Pressure Point
1962 Doctor
- Paris Blues
1961 Eddie Cook
- A Raisin in the Sun
1961 Walter Lee Younger
- All the Young Men
1960 Sgt. Eddie Towler
- Porgy and Bess
1959 Porgy
- Virgin Island
1959 Marcus
- The Defiant Ones
1958 Noah Cullen
- Edge of the City
1957 Tommy Tyler
- Band of Angels
1957 Rau-Ru
- Something of Value
1957 Kimani Wa Karanja
- The Mark of the Hawk
1957 Obam
- Good-bye, My Lady
1956 Gates Watson
- Blackboard Jungle
1955 Gregory W. Miller
- A Man Is Ten Feet Tall
1955 Tommy Tyler
- Go Man Go
1954 Inman Jackson
- The Red Ball Express
1952 Robertson
- Cry, the Beloved Country
1951 Reverend Msimangu
- No Way Out
1950 Luther Brooks
- Sepia Cinderella
1947 Nightclub Extra (uncredited)
