Malcolm X: movies and TV shows
Malcolm X has 62 credits in the archive: 52 films and 10 TV series, from 1959 to 2026. Highest rated: Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (7.7/10).
Career timeline
1959 – 2026 · busiest year: 2019 (6 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | The Making Of | Self (archival) | Film | — | 101 |
| 2026 | apocalipse dos animais | Self (arquive footage) | Film | — | 101 |
| 2025 | Orwell: 2+2=5 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 100 |
| 2024 | Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 99 |
| 2024 | America's Woman | Self | Film | — | 99 |
| 2023 | La Californie ! | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.5 | 98 |
| 2023 | Stand | Self (archive footage) | Film | 3.2 | 98 |
| 2023 | Four Died Trying: Prologue | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 98 |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self - Activist (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 96 |
| 2021 | Muhammad Ali | Self (archive footage) | TV | 8.0 | 96 |
| 2021 | Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 96 |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.4 | 95 |
| 2020 | De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade | Self | Film | — | 95 |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self (archive footage) | Film | 4.7 | 95 |
| 2020 | Malcolm X and the Sudanese | Self | Film | — | 95 |
| 2019 | What's My Name | Muhammad Ali | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.4 | 94 |
| 2019 | Mike Wallace Is Here | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 94 |
| 2019 | Who Killed Malcolm X? | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.0 | 94 |
| 2019 | The Apollo | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.4 | 94 |
| 2019 | When Tariq Ali Met Malcolm X | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 94 |
| 2019 | Barney's Wall | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 94 |
| 2018 | Explained | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.5 | 93 |
| 2018 | Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 93 |
| 2018 | Robert Penn Warren: A Vision | Film | — | 93 | |
| 2017 | I Am Not Your Negro | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 92 |
| 2017 | Burn Motherfucker, Burn! | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 92 |
| 2016 | 13th | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 91 |
| 2016 | Lemonade | Self (voice) (uncredited) | Film | 8.4 | 91 |
| 2013 | The Trials of Muhammad Ali | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 88 |
| 2010 | Motherland | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 85 |
| 2010 | COINTELPRO 101 | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 85 |
| 2009 | Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 84 |
| 2008 | Black Power Salute | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 83 |
| 2007 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.5 | 82 |
| 2002 | Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 8.0 | 77 |
| 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 5.4 | 76 |
| 2001 | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 76 |
| 1998 | Windrush | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 73 |
| 1996 | Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 71 |
| 1996 | All Power to the People! | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.3 | 71 |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Film | 7.6 | 67 | |
| 1992 | The Real Malcolm X | Film | 8.0 | 67 | |
| 1992 | Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century | Film | 10.0 | 67 | |
| 1992 | Black Women, Sexual Politics and the Revolution | Himself (archive) | Film | — | 67 |
| 1992 | Death Scenes 2 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 5.0 | 67 |
| 1990 | The FBI's War on Black America | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 65 |
| 1988 | American Experience | Self (archive footage) | TV | 6.5 | 63 |
| 1983 | Frontline | Self (archive footage) | TV | 6.6 | 58 |
| 1980 | A Decade of Struggle | Self | Film | — | 55 |
| 1975 | Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X | Film | — | 50 | |
| 1974 | Muhammad Ali, the Greatest | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 49 |
| 1972 | Malcolm X | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 47 |
| 1972 | Malcolm X | Film | 6.7 | 47 | |
| 1971 | Dynamite Chicken | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 5.5 | 46 |
| 1970 | a.k.a. Cassius Clay | Self | Film | 7.2 | 45 |
| 1967 | Black Liberation | Self | Film | — | 42 |
| 1967 | A Tribute to Malcolm X | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.7 | 42 |
| 1963 | World in Action | TV | 7.0 | 38 | |
| 1963 | The Negro and the American Promise | Film | — | 38 | |
| 1961 | Walk in My Shoes | Self | Film | — | 36 |
| 1959 | The Hate That Hate Produced | Himself | Film | 5.5 | 34 |
| King vs. the United States of America | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | — |