James Baldwin: movies and TV shows
James Baldwin has 44 credits in the archive: 36 films and 8 TV series, from 1962 to 2025. Highest rated: Malcolm X (7.6/10).
Career timeline
1962 – 2025 · busiest year: 2018 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The New Yorker at 100 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 100 |
| 2023 | James Baldwin Abroad | Self | Film | 10.0 | 98 |
| 2023 | James Baldwin Abroad | Film | 10.0 | 98 | |
| 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 97 |
| 2022 | Brother, Where Are You? | Film | 10.0 | 97 | |
| 2021 | Madonna: Madame X | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.8 | 96 |
| 2021 | i ran from it and was still in it | Self (voice) (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 96 |
| 2020 | De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade | Self | Film | — | 95 |
| 2018 | Explained | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.5 | 93 |
| 2018 | If Beale Street Could Talk | Film | 6.9 | 93 | |
| 2018 | Bobby Kennedy for President | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.8 | 93 |
| 2018 | Mr. SOUL! | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 93 |
| 2018 | Robert Penn Warren: A Vision | Film | — | 93 | |
| 2018 | Target: St. Louis Vol. 1 | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 93 |
| 2017 | I Am Not Your Negro | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 92 |
| 2017 | I Am Not Your Negro | Film | 7.7 | 92 | |
| 2017 | The Madding Crowd | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 92 |
| 2014 | A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 89 |
| 2013 | Off-White Tulips | Self | Film | 6.0 | 88 |
| 2011 | Public Speaking | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 86 |
| 2003 | The James Baldwin Anthology | Film | — | 78 | |
| 1998 | Where the Heart Is | Film | 6.1 | 73 | |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Film | 7.6 | 67 | |
| 1992 | Toc Storee | Film | — | 67 | |
| 1989 | James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket | Self (archive footage) | Film | 3.0 | 64 |
| 1985 | The Statue of Liberty | Self - Writer | Film | 6.9 | 60 |
| 1984 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Film | 6.3 | 59 | |
| 1982 | American Playhouse | TV | 6.6 | 57 | |
| 1982 | I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Film | 7.0 | 57 | |
| 1982 | I Heard It Through the Grapevine | Film | 7.0 | 57 | |
| 1981 | I Remember Harlem | self | TV | — | 56 |
| 1978 | The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre | Himself | Film | — | 53 |
| 1973 | James Baldwin: From Another Place | Self | Film | 6.5 | 48 |
| 1971 | Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris | Self | Film | 7.1 | 46 |
| 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 45 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 43 |
| 1968 | SOUL! | TV | — | 43 | |
| 1968 | Baldwin's Nigger | Self | Film | 7.0 | 43 |
| 1965 | Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley | Self | Film | — | 40 |
| 1964 | Take This Hammer | Self | Film | 10.0 | 39 |
| 1963 | World in Action | TV | 7.0 | 38 | |
| 1963 | The Negro and the American Promise | Film | — | 38 | |
| 1962 | James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village | Self | Film | — | 37 |
| Assignment America | TV | — | — |