Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2022 | Press Play (2022) | Actor |
| 2022 | American Dreamer (2024) | Actor |
| 2021 | President (2009) | Executive Producer |
| 2020 | Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power (2021) | Self |
| 2019 | Always in Season | Narrator |
| 2019 | The Last Black Man in San Francisco | Grandpa |
| 2019 | The Dead Don't Die | Hank Thompson |
| 2019 | Jumanji: The Next Level | Milo |
| 2019 | Lynch: A History | Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Strive | Mr. Rose |
| 2018 | Proud Mary | Benny |
| 2018 | Survivors Guide to Prison | Self |
| 2018 | Sorry to Bother You | Langston |
| 2018 | Hale County This Morning, This Evening | Executive Producer |
| 2018 | Come Sunday | Quincy Pearson |
| 2018 | The Old Man & the Gun | Teddy |
| 2018 | Christmas Break-In | Ray |
| 2018 | Angels Are Made of Light | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | Strong Island | Executive Producer |
| 2017 | The Good Catholic | Victor |
| 2017 | BDFFF BUCKOUT ROAD | Dr. Powell |
| 2016 | Dirty Grandpa | Stinky |
| 2016 | Monster Trucks | Mr. Weathers |
| 2016 | Almost Christmas | Walter |
| 2016 | Mr. Pig | Actor |
| 2016 | Back in the Day | Eddie |
| 2016 | Complete Unknown | Roger |
| 2016 | Pushing Dead | Bob |
| 2016 | Shadow World | Executive Producer |
| 2016 | The House on Coco Road | Producer |
| 2016 | 93 Days | Dr. Benjamin Ohiaeri |
| 2016 | White Sun | Executive Producer |
| 2015 | El Diablo (1990) | Benjamin Carver |
| 2015 | Caffeinated | Actor |
| 2015 | Bad Asses on the Bayou | Bernie Pope |
| 2015 | HFF 15: Waffle Street | Edward Collins |
| 2015 | Gridlocked | Sully |
| 2015 | Consumed | Hal Westbrook |
| 2015 | About Scout | Red |
| 2015 | Andron | Actor |
| 2014 | Concerning Violence | Producer |
| 2014 | Beyond the Lights | Captain David Nicol |
| 2014 | Yellowbird | Darius |
| 2014 | Supremacy | Mr. Walker |
| 2014 | Death Squad | Sponge |
| 2014 | We Are Many | Self |
| 2013 | Space Warriors | Commander Phillips |
| 2013 | Chasing Shakespeare | William Ward |
| 2013 | American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs | Actor |
| 2013 | The Children's Republic | Dubem |
| 2013 | Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight | Justice Thurgood Marshall |
| 2013 | Tula: The Revolt | Shinishi |
| 2013 | The Shift (2013) | Floyd |
| 2012 | The House I Live In | Executive Producer |
| 2012 | LUV | Arthur |
| 2011 | Dum Maaro Dum | Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Donovan's Echo | Donovan Matheson |
| 2010 | Alpha and Omega | Winston |
| 2010 | Death at a Funeral | Uncle Russell |
| 2010 | The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan | Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Legendary | Harry "Red" Newman |
| 2010 | MOOZ-lum | Dean Francis |
| 2010 | The Barrel of a Gun | Actor |
| 2010 | I Want to Be a Soldier | School Director |
| 2009 | 2012 | President Thomas Wilson |
| 2009 | Soundtrack for a Revolution | Executive Producer |
| 2009 | The Harimaya Bridge | Joseph Holder |
| 2009 | Down for Life | Mr. Shannon |
| 2009 | Slap the Donkey | Narrator |
| 2008 | Blindness | Man With Black Eye Patch |
| 2008 | Be Kind Rewind | Mr. Fletcher |
| 2008 | Trouble the Water | Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Tortoise vs. Hare | Walter Tortoise |
| 2008 | Gospel Hill | John Malcolm |
| 2008 | Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action | Self |
| 2007 | Shooter (2007) | Col. Isaac Fitzsimmons Johnson |
| 2007 | Honeydripper | Tyrone Purvis |
| 2007 | Poor Boy's Game | George |
| 2007 | PAFF: Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation | Actor |
| 2007 | Battle for Terra | President Chen |
| 2006 | The Shaggy Dog (2006) | D.A. Ken Hollister |
| 2006 | Dreamgirls | Marty Madison |
| 2006 | Bamako | Cow-boy |
| 2006 | Barnyard | Miles |
| 2005 | Manderlay | Wilhelm |
| 2005 | Missing In America | Jake |
| 2005 | The Exonerated | David |
| 2004 | Saw | Detective David Tapp |
| 2004 | The Cookout | Judge Crowley |
| 2001 | The Royal Tenenbaums | Henry Sherman |
| 2000 | Boesman and Lena | Boesman |
| 1999 | Our Friend, Martin | Train Conductor |
| 1998 | Antz | Barbatus |
| 1998 | The Prince of Egypt | Jethro |
| 1998 | Lethal Weapon 4 | Roger Murtaugh |
| 1998 | Beloved (1998) | Paul D Garner |
| 1997 | The Rainmaker | Judge Tyrone Kipler (uncredited) |
| 1997 | Gone Fishin' | Gus Green |
| 1996 | America's Dream | Silas |
| 1994 | Angels in the Outfield | George Knox |
| 1993 | The Saint of Fort Washington | Jerry/Narrator |
| 1992 | Lethal Weapon 3 | Roger Murtaugh |
| 1991 | Grand Canyon | Simon |
| 1991 | A Rage in Harlem | Easy Money |
| 1990 | To Sleep With Anger | Harry |
| 1990 | Predator 2 | Lieutenant Mike Harrigan |
| 1989 | Lethal Weapon 2 | Sergeant Roger Murtaugh |
| 1988 | Bat 21 | Capt. Bartholomew Clark |
| 1987 | Lethal Weapon | Sergeant Roger Murtaugh |
| 1985 | Silverado | Malachi 'Mal' Johnson |
| 1985 | The Color Purple (1986) | Albert |
| 1985 | Witness (1985) | Det. Lt. James McFee |
| 1984 | Places in the Heart | Moze |
| 1982 | Deadly Drifter | Jojo/Roland |
