Cornel West: movies and TV shows
Cornel West has 54 credits in the archive: 45 films and 9 TV series, from 1991 to 2024. Highest rated: Firing Line with Margaret Hoover (8.0/10).
Career timeline
1991 – 2024 · busiest year: 2021 (5 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Tax Broke | Self | Film | 9.0 | 71 |
| 2024 | De "Matrix" à "Sense8", la révolution Wachowski | Self - Postcolonialism Philosopher | Film | 6.8 | 71 |
| 2023 | Israelism | Self | Film | 8.2 | 70 |
| 2021 | Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union | Self | TV | 5.3 | 68 |
| 2021 | When I See Them, I See Us | Film | — | 68 | |
| 2021 | Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali | Self | Film | 7.3 | 68 |
| 2021 | 137 Shots | self | Film | 6.3 | 68 |
| 2021 | Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 2020 | Bernie Blackout | Self | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2020 | We Are George Floyd | Self | Film | — | 67 |
| 2020 | Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story | Self | Film | — | 67 |
| 2020 | The Big Scary “S” Word | Self | Film | 8.0 | 67 |
| 2019 | Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America | Self - Harvard University | Film | — | 66 |
| 2019 | No Safe Spaces | Self | Film | 7.0 | 66 |
| 2018 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | TV | 8.0 | 65 | |
| 2018 | The Corporate Coup D'État | Self - Philosopher | Film | 7.4 | 65 |
| 2018 | American Tap | Self | Film | 6.0 | 65 |
| 2017 | Chasing Trane | Self - Philosopher | Film | 7.3 | 64 |
| 2017 | An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story | Self | Film | — | 64 |
| 2017 | The Black Bloc: Inside America’s Hard Left | Self | Film | 6.0 | 64 |
| 2016 | Black America since MLK: And still I rise | Film | — | 63 | |
| 2016 | America's Election 2016: South Carolina's Black Vote | Self | Film | — | 63 |
| 2015 | Kareem: Minority of One | Self | Film | 7.2 | 62 |
| 2014 | Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee | Self | Film | 1.5 | 61 |
| 2014 | Nas: Time Is Illmatic | Self | Film | 7.0 | 61 |
| 2013 | Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal | Self | Film | 10.0 | 60 |
| 2012 | Sinister | Film | 6.9 | 59 | |
| 2012 | Owned & Operated | Cornel West | Film | 8.8 | 59 |
| 2011 | The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique | Self | Film | 7.2 | 58 |
| 2011 | East Meets West: Hindi & Christian Perspectives on God, Love, & Spiritual Activism | Self | Film | — | 58 |
| 2011 | Fear of a Black Republican | Self | Film | — | 58 |
| 2010 | Still Bill | Self | Film | 7.1 | 57 |
| 2009 | The Private Lives of Pippa Lee | Don Sexton | Film | 5.9 | 56 |
| 2009 | Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy | Self | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 2009 | Stand | Self | Film | — | 56 |
| 2008 | Q&A | Self - Panelist | TV | 3.2 | 55 |
| 2008 | James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston | Self (as Dr. Cornel West) | Film | 6.6 | 55 |
| 2008 | Examined Life | Self | Film | 6.5 | 55 |
| 2006 | 30 Rock | Cornel West | TV | 7.5 | 53 |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report | Self | TV | 6.9 | 52 |
| 2005 | Black in the 80s | Self | TV | — | 52 |
| 2005 | Street Fight | Self | Film | 6.9 | 52 |
| 2004 | The Matrix Recalibrated | Self | Film | 7.0 | 51 |
| 2003 | Real Time with Bill Maher | Self | TV | 6.1 | 50 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded | Councillor West | Film | 7.1 | 50 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Revolutions | Councillor West | Film | 6.8 | 50 |
| 2003 | The Matrix Reloaded: Pre-Load | Self | Film | 6.1 | 50 |
| 1998 | Motown 40: The Music Is Forever | Self | Film | — | 45 |
| 1997 | The Chris Rock Show | TV | 4.6 | 44 | |
| 1995 | Black Is… Black Ain’t | Self | Film | 5.8 | 42 |
| 1994 | Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool | Self | Film | 9.0 | 41 |
| 1992 | The Issue Is Race: A Crisis in Black and White | Self | Film | — | 39 |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose | Self | TV | 6.1 | 38 |
| Fariba | Film | — | — |