| The L Word | 2004-2005 | actor |
| Proud | 2004 | actor |
| She Hate Me | 2004 | actor |
| JAG | 2003 | actor |
| Baadasssss! | 2003 | actor |
| Deacons for Defense | 2003 | actor |
| Touched by an Angel | 1996-2002 | actor |
| Presidio Med | 2002 | actor |
| Bubba Ho-Tep | 2002 | actor |
| Philly | 2002 | actor |
| Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Ghost of Christmas Eve | 2001 | actor |
| The Feast of All Saints | 2001 | actor |
| Legend of the Candy Cane | 2001 | actor |
| J.C. Leyendecker: The Great American Illustrator | 2000 | actor |
| Here's to Life! | 2000 | actor |
| Dinosaur | 2000 | actor |
| Finding Buck McHenry | 2000 | actor |
| Third Watch | 1999-2000 | actor |
| City of Angels | 2000 | actor |
| A Vow to Cherish | 1999 | actor |
| The Ghosts of Christmas Eve | 1999 | actor |
| The Soul Collector | 1999 | actor |
| The Secret Path | 1999 | actor |
| Cosby | 1999 | actor |
| Alyson's Closet | 1998 | actor |
| Promised Land | 1996-1998 | actor |
| Doctor Dolittle | 1998 | actor |
| The Protector | 1997 | actor |
| 12 Angry Men | 1997 | actor |
| Miss Evers' Boys | 1997 | actor |
| Home of the Brave | 1996 | actor |
| Ripper | 1996 | actor |
| I'm Not Rappaport | 1996 | actor |
| Get on the Bus | 1996 | actor |
| The Client | 1995-1996 | actor |
| The Android Affair | 1995 | actor |
| Ray Alexander: A Menu for Murder | 1995 | actor |
| The Great Battles of the Civil War | 1994 | actor |
| The Client | 1994 | actor |
| Evening Shade | 1990-1994 | actor |
| Ray Alexander: A Taste for Justice | 1994 | actor |
| The Stand | 1994 | actor |
| Grumpy Old Men | 1993 | actor |
| Cop & | 1993 | actor |
| Queen | 1993 | actor |
| The Ernest Green Story | 1993 | actor |
| Lincoln | 1992 | actor |
| Malcolm X | 1992 | actor |
| Gladiator | 1992 | actor |
| Jungle Fever | 1991 | actor |
| We'll Take Manhattan | 1990 | actor |
| B.L. Stryker | 1989-1990 | actor |
| Joe Versus the Volcano | 1990 | actor |
| The Red Shoes | 1990 | actor |
| Do the Right Thing | 1989 | actor |
| School Daze | 1988 | actor |
| Avenging Angel | 1985 | actor |
| The House of God | 1984 | actor |
| Harry & Son | 1984 | actor |
| Don't Look Back: The Story of Leroy 'Satchel' Paige | 1981 | actor |
| Ossie and Ruby! | 1980 | actor |
| All God's Children | 1980 | actor |
| Freedom Road | 1979 | actor |
| Hot Stuff | 1979 | actor |
| Roots: The Next Generations | 1979 | actor |
| King | 1978 | actor |
| NBC Special Treat | 1977 | actor |
| Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid | 1977 | actor |
| The Tenth Level | 1976 | actor |
| Cool Red | 1976 | actor |
| Let's Do It Again | 1975 | actor |
| Hawaii Five-O | 1974 | actor |
| The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People | 1974 | actor |
| Love, American Style | 1973 | actor |
| The Sheriff | 1971 | actor |
| Night Gallery | 1969 | actor |
| Slaves | 1969 | actor |
| Sam Whiskey | 1969 | actor |
| Bonanza | 1969 | actor |
| The Name of the Game | 1969 | actor |
| Teacher, Teacher | 1969 | actor |
| N.Y.P.D. | 1968 | actor |
| The Scalphunters | 1968 | actor |
| The Outsider | 1967 | actor |
| Run for Your Life | 1966-1967 | actor |
| 12 O'Clock High | 1966 | actor |
| The Fugitive | 1966 | actor |
| A Man Called Adam | 1966 | actor |
| Slattery's People | 1965 | actor |
| The Hill | 1965 | actor |
| The Defenders | 1961-1965 | actor |
| The Doctors and the Nurses | 1964 | actor |
| Shock Treatment | 1964 | actor |
| The Cardinal | 1963 | actor |
| The Great Adventure | 1963 | actor |
| Gone Are the Days! | 1963 | actor |
| Car 54, Where Are You? | 1962-1963 | actor |
| Seven Times Monday | 1962 | actor |
| Play of the Week | 1960-1961 | actor |
| John Brown's Raid | 1960 | actor |
| CBS Repertoire Workshop | 1960 | actor |
| Playhouse 90 | 1960 | actor |
| Kraft Theatre | 1955 | actor |
| The Emperor Jones | 1955 | actor |
| The Joe Louis Story | 1953 | actor |
| Fourteen Hours | 1951 | actor |
| No Way Out | 1950 | actor |
| American Playhouse | 1983 | writer |
| Purlie | 1981 | writer |
| Cool Red | 1976 | writer |
| Cotton Comes to Harlem | 1970 | writer |
| History of the Negro People | 1965 | writer |
| East Side/West Side | | writer |
| Gone Are the Days! | 1963 | writer |
| Crown Dick | 1987 | director |
| Cool Red | 1976 | director |
| The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People | 1974 | director |
| Gordon's War | 1973 | director |
| Black Girl | 1972 | director |
| Kongi's Harvest | 1970 | director |
| Cotton Comes to Harlem | 1970 | director |
| Amora: The Inquisition | 2003 | producer |
| Hands Upon the Heart | 1991 | producer |
| Cotton Comes to Harlem | 1970 | soundtrack |
| Car 54, Where Are You? | 1962 | soundtrack |
| We Shall Not Be Moved | 2001 | miscellaneous |
| Malcolm X | 1992 | miscellaneous |
| Independent Lens | 2013 | thanks |
| Three Days to Vegas | 2007 | thanks |
| Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted | 2004 | thanks |
| Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | 1998 | thanks |
| For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | 2010 | self |
| A Trumpet at the Walls of Jericho | 2005 | self |
| By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X' | 2005 | self |
| The Peace! DVD | 2005 | self |
| Character Studies | 2005 | self |
| Tavis Smiley | 2005 | self |
| The History Makers | 2005 | self |
| Unstoppable: Conversation with Melvin Van Peebles, Gordon Parks, and Ossie Davis | 2005 | self |
| Romare Bearden at the High | 2005 | self |
| Making of 'King' | 2005 | self |
| The Civil Rights Movement | 2005 | self |
| The Struggle | 2005 | self |
| The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts | 2004 | self |
| Emmy's Greatest Moments | 2004 | self |
| The Story Behind Baadasssss!: The Birth of Black Cinema | 2004 | self |
| Apollo at 70: A Hot Night in Harlem | 2004 | self |
| Making of 'Bubba Ho-tep' | 2004 | self |
| A Wealth of Wisdom | 2004 | self |
| Book TV | 2004 | self |
| Independent Lens | 2004 | self |
| XXI Century | 2003 | self |
| Beah: A Black Woman Speaks | 2003 | self |
| Spike Lee's '25th Hour': The Evolution of an American Filmmaker | 2003 | self |
| 2003 Trumpet Awards | 2003 | self |
| Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property | 2003 | self |
| Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | 2003 | self |
| Counting on Democracy: The Untold Story of 175,000 Missing Votes in the 2000 Presidential Election | 2002 | self |
| That's Black Entertainment: Actors | 2002 | self |
| That's Black Entertainment: Comedians | 2002 | self |
| The Last Poets | 2002 | self |
| That's Black Entertainment: Westerns | 2002 | self |
| An Evening with Ossie Davis & Ruby Dee | 2002 | self |
| Hughes' Dream Harlem | 2002 | self |
| Why Can't We Be a Family Again? | 2002 | self |
| Broadway Legends | 2002 | self |
| School's Out: Self-taught Artists | 2002 | self |
| The Tuskegee Airmen | 2002 | self |
| Inside TV Land: African Americans in Television | 2002 | self |
| Voice of the Voiceless | 2001 | self |
| Christianity: The First Two Thousand Years | 2001 | self |
| 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2001 | self |
| Intimate Portrait | 2001 | self |
| Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore | 2001 | self |
| God's Will | 2000 | self |
| The Directors | 1999-2000 | self |
| The Gospel According to Mr. Allen | 2000 | self |
| A Principled Man: Rev. Leon Sullivan | 2000 | self |
| Great Books | 2000 | self |
| The Unfinished Journey | 1999 | self |
| The Interviews: An Oral History of Television | 1999 | self |
| Neighborhoods: The Hidden Cities of San Francisco - The Fillmore | 1999 | self |
| The Century: America's Time | 1999 | self |
| 30th NAACP Image Awards | 1999 | self |
| American Masters | 1996-1999 | self |
| Charlie Rose | 1998-1999 | self |
| Tuskegee Airmen: American Heroes | 1999 | self |
| Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | 1998 | self |
| NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II | 1998 | self |
| The Roseanne Show | 1998 | self |
| Small Steps, Big Strides: The Black Experience in Hollywood | 1998 | self |
| The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1997 | self |
| Thomas Jefferson | 1997 | self |
| Walter Matthau: Diamond in the Rough | 1997 | self |
| 4 Little Girls | 1997 | self |
| Jackie Robinson: Breaking Barriers | 1997 | self |
| The Rosie O'Donnell Show | 1997 | self |
| VH1 Legends | 1996 | self |
| Celebrate the Dream: 50 Years of Ebony Magazine | 1996 | self |
| The West | 1996 | self |
| Mississippi, America | 1996 | self |
| Dramatic Moments in Black Sports History | 1995 | self |
| Reading Rainbow | 1994 | self |
| Arthur Ashe: Citizen of the World | 1994 | self |
| Baseball | 1994 | self |
| The 48th Annual Tony Awards | 1994 | self |
| The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery | 1994 | self |
| American Experience | 1994 | self |
| 26th NAACP Image Awards | 1994 | self |
| The Great Depression | 1993 | self |
| The Arsenio Hall Show | 1993 | self |
| Michael Landon: Memories with Laughter and Love | 1991 | self |
| Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker | 1991 | self |
| The 43rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1991 | self |
| 22nd NAACP Image Awards | 1990 | self |
| Making Do the Right Thing | 1989 | self |
| The Oprah Winfrey Show | 1989 | self |
| Today | 1989 | self |
| Ebony/Jet Showcase | 1988 | self |
| Nightlife | 1987 | self |
| Working in the Theatre | 1986 | self |
| Tyler Texas Black Film Collection | 1985 | self |
| A Walk Through the 20th Century with Bill Moyers | 1984 | self |
| A Celebration of Life: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1984 | self |
| Death of a Prophet | 1981 | self |
| Tony Brown's Journal | 1978 | self |
| Black Journal | 1977 | self |
| Black Shadows on the Silver Screen | 1975 | self |
| What's My Line? | 1973 | self |
| Wattstax | 1973 | self |
| Malcolm X | 1972 | self |
| Actor's Choice | 1970 | self |
| Zur Nacht | 1970 | self |
| The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1963-1970 | self |
| He Said, She Said | 1970 | self |
| The Fall | 1969 | self |
| The David Frost Show | 1969 | self |
| Still a Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class | 1968 | self |
| Look Up and Live | 1968 | self |
| The Merv Griffin Show | 1967-1968 | self |
| History of the Negro People | 1965 | self |
| The Price Is Right | 1965 | self |
| The Mike Douglas Show | 1965 | self |
| The 16th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1964 | self |
| Freedom Spectacular | 1964 | self |
| To Tell the Truth | 1963 | self |
| Accent on an American Summer | 1962 | self |
| The Shari Lewis Show | 1962 | self |
| The 16th Annual Tony Awards | 1962 | self |
| Showtime, U.S.A. | 1951 | self |
| A Certain Magical Pimpdex: Extended Edition | 2019 | archive_footage |
| What's My Name: Muhammad Ali | 2019 | archive_footage |
| Dooley's Not Dooby | 2018 | archive_footage |
| 50 Years with Peter Paul and Mary | 2014 | archive_footage |
| P.O.V. | 2014 | archive_footage |
| American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs | 2013 | archive_footage |
| Welcome to the Basement | 2013 | archive_footage |
| Mafia's Greatest Hits | 2012 | archive_footage |
| Democracy Now! | 2010 | archive_footage |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | 2007 | archive_footage |
| Segregating the Greatest Generation | 2006 | archive_footage |
| The Black Movie Awards | 2005 | archive_footage |
| Biography | 2005 | archive_footage |
| The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 2005 | archive_footage |
| American Masters | 2005 | archive_footage |
| The 77th Annual Academy Awards | 2005 | archive_footage |
| 11th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2005 | archive_footage |
| TV in Black: The First Fifty Years | 2004 | archive_footage |
| The Real Malcolm X | 1992 | archive_footage |
| Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories | 1986 | archive_footage |
| The Sun... the Sand... the Hill. | 1965 | archive_footage |
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