Al Sharpton: movies and TV shows
Al Sharpton has 110 credits in the archive: 68 films and 42 TV series, from 1975 to 2024. Highest rated: MS NOW Reports (9.6/10).
Career timeline
1975 – 2024 · busiest year: 2018 (9 credits)
Advertisement
Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | James Brown: Say It Loud | Self | TV | 8.0 | 69 |
| 2024 | "Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary) | Self | Film | — | 69 |
| 2024 | Atrocity Inc. | Self - Civil Rights Activist | Film | 10.0 | 69 |
| 2024 | Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid | Self | Film | 6.2 | 69 |
| 2023 | Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World | Self | TV | 7.0 | 68 |
| 2023 | South to Black Power | Self | Film | 3.5 | 68 |
| 2023 | When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 2022 | Sherri | Self - Guest | TV | 2.6 | 67 |
| 2022 | JANET JACKSON. | Self | TV | 7.5 | 67 |
| 2022 | Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 67 |
| 2022 | The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.6 | 67 |
| 2022 | Loudmouth | Self | Film | 6.0 | 67 |
| 2022 | Rudy! A Documusical | Self | Film | — | 67 |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self - Minister & Activist | Film | 7.6 | 66 |
| 2021 | Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union | Self | TV | 5.3 | 66 |
| 2021 | Woman in Motion | Self | Film | 6.8 | 66 |
| 2021 | Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali | Self | Film | 7.3 | 66 |
| 2021 | The First Wave | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.6 | 66 |
| 2021 | Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage | Self | Film | — | 66 |
| 2020 | The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart | Self | TV | — | 65 |
| 2020 | By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem | Self | TV | 3.3 | 65 |
| 2020 | Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn | Self | Film | 6.4 | 65 |
| 2020 | Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort | Self | Film | — | 65 |
| 2020 | American Trial: The Eric Garner Story | Self | Film | — | 65 |
| 2019 | The Black Godfather | Self | Film | 6.6 | 64 |
| 2018 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | Self | TV | 8.0 | 63 |
| 2018 | Basketball: A Love Story | Self | TV | 7.3 | 63 |
| 2018 | Satan & Adam | Self | Film | 7.3 | 63 |
| 2018 | United We Stand: The Ali Summit | self | Film | — | 63 |
| 2018 | Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes | Self | Film | 7.2 | 63 |
| 2018 | I Am MLK Jr. | Self | Film | 8.8 | 63 |
| 2018 | Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media | Self | Film | — | 63 |
| 2018 | Prince: the Last Year of a Legend | Self - Civil rights activist | Film | — | 63 |
| 2018 | Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald | Self | Film | — | 63 |
| 2017 | Time: The Kalief Browder Story | Self | TV | 7.2 | 62 |
| 2017 | Maynard | Self | Film | 5.2 | 62 |
| 2017 | Get Me Roger Stone | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 62 |
| 2016 | Star | Rev. Al Sharpton | TV | 8.0 | 61 |
| 2016 | A Tale of James Brown | Self | Film | — | 61 |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self - Guest | TV | 6.1 | 60 |
| 2015 | Empire | Rev. Al Sharpton | TV | 7.1 | 60 |
| 2015 | Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice | Self - National Action Network | Film | — | 60 |
| 2014 | Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown | Self | Film | 6.9 | 59 |
| 2014 | We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama | Film | — | 59 | |
| 2014 | James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message | Self | Film | 8.0 | 59 |
| 2014 | 91 Bullets in a Minute | Self | Film | — | 59 |
| 2013 | Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie | Self | Film | 6.0 | 58 |
| 2013 | Koch | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 4.9 | 58 |
| 2012 | Steve Harvey | Self | TV | 7.0 | 57 |
| 2012 | The Central Park Five | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 57 |
| 2011 | PoliticsNation | Self | TV | 2.5 | 56 |
| 2011 | On the Shoulders of Giants | Film | 6.3 | 56 | |
| 2011 | Looking for Lenny | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.4 | 56 |
| 2011 | The After Party: The Last Party 3 | Self | Film | — | 56 |
| 2011 | Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story | Self | Film | — | 56 |
| 2010 | America: The Story of Us | Self | TV | 8.2 | 55 |
| 2010 | Race | Self | Film | 6.8 | 55 |
| 2010 | Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop? | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 55 |
| 2010 | One Night in Vegas | Self | Film | 6.3 | 55 |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest | TV | 5.0 | 54 |
| 2009 | Joy Behar: Say Anything! | Himself | TV | — | 54 |
| 2009 | Madea Goes to Jail | Self | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 2009 | Good Hair | Self | Film | 6.5 | 54 |
| 2009 | Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored | Self | Film | 10.0 | 54 |
| 2009 | Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez | Self | Film | — | 54 |
| 2009 | Abraham Obama | Self | Film | — | 54 |
| 2009 | If I Die Tonight | Self | Film | 1.0 | 54 |
| 2008 | James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston | Self | Film | 6.6 | 53 |
| 2008 | The Black List: Volume One | Self | Film | 6.5 | 53 |
| 2008 | Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary | Self | Film | — | 53 |
| 2008 | Murder in Black & White | TV | — | 53 | |
| 2007 | The Jena 6 | Self | Film | — | 52 |
| 2006 | When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | Self | TV | 7.5 | 51 |
| 2006 | Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story | Self | Film | — | 51 |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report | Self | TV | 6.9 | 50 |
| 2005 | Pursuit of Equality | Self | Film | 3.0 | 50 |
| 2005 | Street Fight | Self | Film | 6.9 | 50 |
| 2005 | The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till | Film | 6.5 | 50 | |
| 2004 | Boston Legal | Reverend Al Sharpton | TV | 7.9 | 49 |
| 2004 | Rescue Me | TV | 7.6 | 49 | |
| 2004 | Tanner on Tanner | Self | TV | 10.0 | 49 |
| 2004 | Celsius 41.11 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.5 | 49 |
| 2004 | I Hate My Job | TV | 8.0 | 49 | |
| 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | TV | 6.1 | 48 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self | TV | 5.3 | 48 |
| 2003 | Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Self - Guest | TV | 5.3 | 48 |
| 2003 | Anderson Cooper 360° | TV | 5.4 | 48 | |
| 2003 | James Brown: Soul Survivor | Film | 7.7 | 48 | |
| 2002 | Mr. Deeds | The Rhyme Master | Film | 5.9 | 47 |
| 2001 | My Wife and Kids | TV | 7.4 | 46 | |
| 2000 | Girlfriends | Al Sharpton | TV | 7.3 | 45 |
| 2000 | Bamboozled | Himself | Film | 6.3 | 45 |
| 2000 | Let's Talk | Film | 10.0 | 45 | |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Himself | TV | 8.0 | 44 |
| 1999 | Cold Feet | The Reverend | Film | 3.7 | 44 |
| 1999 | The Subtext of a Yale Education | Self | Film | — | 44 |
| 1997 | The Chris Rock Show | TV | 4.6 | 42 | |
| 1997 | The Chris Rock Show | Self | TV | 4.6 | 42 |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.4 | 41 |
| 1996 | Fox News Sunday | Self | TV | 3.8 | 41 |
| 1996 | MS NOW Reports | Self | TV | 9.6 | 41 |
| 1995 | Run For Cover | Himself | Film | 4.4 | 40 |
| 1994 | New York Undercover | Self | TV | 7.3 | 39 |
| 1993 | Raw | Self | TV | 6.8 | 38 |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | TV | 7.3 | 38 |
| 1993 | The Last Party | Self | Film | 5.2 | 38 |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Speaker #2 | Film | 7.6 | 37 |
| 1990 | Seven Days in Bensonhurst | Self | Film | — | 35 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host | TV | 6.9 | 20 |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | TV | 6.9 | 20 |