| 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: Return To The Overlook (2020) Self |
| 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) |
| Black Panther (2010) Uncle S'Yan |
| Nominated (2010) Ray Cowan |
| The Alphabet Killer (2008) Dr. Ellis Parks |
| Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007) Samuel Nujoma |
| Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) Other Voices (voice) |
| Justice League: Starcrossed - The Movie (2004) J'onn J'onzz (voice) |
| Warming by the Devil's Fire (2003) Narrator |
| Justice League: Paradise Lost (2003) J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter (voice) |
| Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003) Nat Turner - Gray |
| Sounder (2003) The Father |
| Justice League: The Savage Time (2002) Martian Manhunter |
| Just a Dream (2002) J.M. Hoagland |
| Justice League: Secret Origins (2001) J'onn J'onzz (voice) |
| Justice League: The First Mission (2000) Martian Manhunter |
| Men of Honor (2000) Mac Brashear |
| Little Richard (2000) Bud Penniman |
| The Color of Friendship (2000) Ron Dellums |
| Border Line (1999) Detective Mollo |
| How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) Judge Spencer Boyle |
| The Wedding (1998) Lute McNeil |
| Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (1998) Additional Voices (voice) |
| Buffalo Soldiers (1997) John Horse |
| The Ditchdigger's Daughters (1997) Donald Thornton |
| Nightjohn (1996) Nightjohn |
| America's Dream (1996) Cal (segment "The Boy Who Painted Christ Black") |
| Cagney & Lacey: The Return (1994) Marcus Petrie |
| On Promised Land (1994) Floyd Ween |
| M.A.N.T.I.S. (1994) Dr. Miles Hawkins |
| Out of Darkness (1994) Addison |
| South Central (1992) Ali |
| Back to the Streets of San Francisco (1992) Charlie Walker |
| Eyes of a Witness (1991) Mambulu |
| Brother Future (1991) Denmark Vessy |
| The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry (1991) Self |
| To Sleep with Anger (1990) Junior |
| Pacific Heights (1990) Lieutenant Lou Baker |
| Moe's World (1990) |
| Everybody's All-American (1988) Narvel Blue |
| Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8 (1987) Bobby Seale |
| The Bedroom Window (1987) Quirke |
| 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 |