Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2023 | The Equalizer 3 (2023) | Robert McCall |
| 2022 | Sidney (2022) | Self |
| 2021 | The Little Things (2021) | Joe "Deke" Deacon |
| 2021 | A Journal for Jordan (2021) | Director, Producer |
| 2021 | The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) | Lord Macbeth |
| 2020 | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) | Producer |
| 2018 | The Equalizer 2 | Robert McCall |
| 2017 | Roman J Israel, Esq. | Roman J. Israel, Esq. |
| 2016 | The Magnificent Seven (2016) | Chisolm |
| 2016 | Fences | Troy Maxson |
| 2016 | Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Feature Documentary | John Coltrane |
| 2014 | The Equalizer (2014) | Robert McCall |
| 2013 | 2 Guns | Robert "Bobby" Trench |
| 2012 | Safe House | Tobin Frost |
| 2012 | Flight | Whip Whitaker |
| 2010 | The Book of Eli | Eli |
| 2010 | Unstoppable (2010) | Frank Barnes |
| 2009 | The Taking of Pelham 123 | Walter Garber |
| 2007 | American Gangster | Frank Lucas |
| 2007 | AMEX Exclusive: The Great Debaters | Mel Tolson |
| 2006 | Inside Man (2006) | Keith Frazier |
| 2006 | Deja Vu | Doug Carlin |
| 2004 | Man on Fire (2004) | Creasy |
| 2004 | Victory: THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE | Army Major Ben Marco |
| 2003 | Out of Time | Marty Walsh |
| 2002 | John Q | John Q. Archibald |
| 2002 | Antwone Fisher | Jerome Davenport |
| 2001 | Training Day | Alonzo Harris |
| 2000 | Remember the Titans | Coach Boone |
| 1999 | The Hurricane | Rubin "Hurricane" Carter |
| 1999 | The Bone Collector | Lincoln Rhyme |
| 1998 | He Got Game | Jake Shuttlesworth |
| 1996 | Courage Under Fire | Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling |
| 1996 | The Preacher's Wife | Dudley |
| 1995 | Devil in a Blue Dress | Ezekiel 'Easy' Rawlins |
| 1995 | Crimson Tide | Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter, XO, USS Alabama |
| 1995 | Virtuosity | Lt. Parker Barnes |
| 1993 | Much Ado About Nothing (1993) | Don Pedro of Aragon |
| 1993 | Philadelphia | Joe Miller |
| 1993 | The Pelican Brief | Gray Grantham |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Malcolm X |
| 1991 | Mississippi Masala | Demetrius Williams |
| 1991 | Ricochet | Nick Styles |
| 1990 | Mo' Better Blues | Bleek Gilliam |
| 1989 | Glory (1989) | Pvt. Trip |
| 1989 | The Mighty Quinn | Xavier Quinn |
| 1987 | Cry Freedom | Steve Biko |
| 1986 | The George McKenna Story | George McKenna |
| 1984 | A Soldier's Story | Private First Class Peterson |
