Martin Luther King Jr.: movies and TV shows
Martin Luther King Jr. has 172 credits in the archive: 134 films and 38 TV series, from 1959 to 2026. Highest rated: The Corporation (7.6/10).
Career timeline
1959 – 2026 · busiest year: 2018 (12 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | America Who Are You? A History of the American Mindset | Self (archive footage) | TV | 4.0 | 97 |
| 2026 | Martin Luther King Jr.: Enemies of the Dream | Self (archive footage) | Film | 4.0 | 97 |
| 2025 | Clock - Socialist Burgers Inc. | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 96 |
| 2024 | Hollywood Black | Self (archive footage) | TV | 3.0 | 95 |
| 2024 | The Beach Boys | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.6 | 95 |
| 2024 | Zeitgeist: Requiem | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 95 |
| 2024 | Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 95 |
| 2024 | Becoming King | Self (archive footage) | Film | 1.0 | 95 |
| 2024 | The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 95 |
| 2024 | America's Woman | Self | Film | — | 95 |
| 2023 | Bill Russell: Legend | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.2 | 94 |
| 2023 | Origin | Self (archive voice) | Film | 6.2 | 94 |
| 2023 | The Universe | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 94 |
| 2023 | La Californie ! | Self (archive footage) | TV | 8.0 | 94 |
| 2023 | Stand | Self (archive footage) | Film | 3.3 | 94 |
| 2023 | Jim Crow: The History of Africans in America | Film | — | 94 | |
| 2023 | Four Died Trying: Prologue | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 94 |
| 2023 | Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight | Film | — | 94 | |
| 2022 | The Century of Icons | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.0 | 93 |
| 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 93 |
| 2022 | Say Hey, Willie Mays! | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 93 |
| 2022 | A History of Antisemitism | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) | TV | 6.8 | 93 |
| 2022 | The Janes | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.5 | 93 |
| 2022 | Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 93 |
| 2022 | Sammy by Sammy: My Tale of the 60's | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 93 |
| 2022 | Martin Luther King: More Than One Dream | Film | 8.5 | 93 | |
| 2022 | A History of the World According to Getty Images | Self (Archive Footage) | Film | 6.5 | 93 |
| 2021 | This Is Pop | Self (archive footage) | TV | 5.9 | 92 |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self - Activist (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 92 |
| 2021 | Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 92 |
| 2021 | The Art of Dissent | Self - Subject (archive footage) | Film | — | 92 |
| 2021 | Killing Martin Luther King Jr. | Self | Film | — | 92 |
| 2020 | History 101 | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.1 | 91 |
| 2020 | First Ladies | Self (archive footage) | TV | 5.3 | 91 |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.4 | 91 |
| 2020 | Helter Skelter: An American Myth | Self (archive footage) | TV | 6.7 | 91 |
| 2020 | Ku Klux Klan: An American Story | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) | TV | 6.6 | 91 |
| 2020 | The Soul of America | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.3 | 91 |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self (archive Footage) | Film | 4.4 | 91 |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self (archive footage) | Film | 4.4 | 91 |
| 2020 | Killing John F. Kennedy | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 91 |
| 2020 | MLK/FBI | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 91 |
| 2020 | The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.9 | 91 |
| 2020 | De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade | Self | Film | — | 91 |
| 2019 | What's My Name | Muhammad Ali | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.4 | 90 |
| 2019 | England 79 | Film | — | 90 | |
| 2019 | Geek, and You Shall Find | Self (voice) | Film | 5.7 | 90 |
| 2019 | Mike Wallace Is Here | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 90 |
| 2019 | Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation | Self | Film | 7.3 | 90 |
| 2019 | Manson: Music from an Unsound Mind | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 90 |
| 2019 | The Green Book: Guide to Freedom | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 90 |
| 2019 | Demokratie unter Druck – Europa vor der Wahl | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) | Film | 5.0 | 90 |
| 2019 | Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.5 | 90 |
| 2019 | Hesburgh | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 90 |
| 2018 | Basketball: A Love Story | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.3 | 89 |
| 2018 | Explained | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.5 | 89 |
| 2018 | Elvis Presley: The Searcher | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.5 | 89 |
| 2018 | Bobby Kennedy for President | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.8 | 89 |
| 2018 | Josephine Baker: The Story of an Awakening | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 89 |
| 2018 | I Am MLK Jr. | Self | Film | 8.8 | 89 |
| 2018 | King in the Wilderness | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 89 |
| 2018 | The Corporate Coup D'État | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.4 | 89 |
| 2018 | 1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 89 |
| 2018 | Robert Penn Warren: A Vision | Film | — | 89 | |
| 2018 | Martin Luther King, Jr. : Marked Man | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 89 |
| 2018 | Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 89 |
| 2017 | Monochrome: Black, White & Blue | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 88 |
| 2017 | Burn Motherfucker, Burn! | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 88 |
| 2017 | August 28: A Day in the Life of a People | Self (archive footage) | Film | 1.0 | 88 |
| 2017 | Chasing Trane | Self - Civil Rights Activist (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 88 |
| 2016 | Race for the White House | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.9 | 87 |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America | Self (archive footage) | TV | 8.1 | 87 |
| 2016 | 13th | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 87 |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.4 | 87 |
| 2016 | We Have A Dream | Self (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 87 |
| 2016 | Great Literary Tour | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 87 |
| 2016 | Året var 1966 | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 87 |
| 2016 | Andrew Cohen on Crisis and Its Outtakes | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 87 |
| 2015 | In Their Own Words | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 86 |
| 2015 | Leif GW Persson - Min klassresa | Self (archive footage) | TV | 10.0 | 86 |
| 2015 | Imminent Threat | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 86 |
| 2015 | Children of the Civil Rights | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 86 |
| 2015 | Klansville U.S.A. | Self (archive Footage) | Film | 6.8 | 86 |
| 2014 | Emancipation Road | Self | TV | — | 85 |
| 2014 | Freedom Summer | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 85 |
| 2013 | Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 84 |
| 2013 | Speeches That Shook the World | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 84 |
| 2013 | Martin Luther King and the March on Washington | Self | Film | 10.0 | 84 |
| 2013 | Året var 1963 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.0 | 84 |
| 2012 | I Am | Self | TV | — | 83 |
| 2012 | Infamous Assassinations | Self (archive footage) | TV | 8.2 | 83 |
| 2012 | The House I Live In | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.5 | 83 |
| 2012 | MLK: The Assassination Tapes | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 83 |
| 2012 | Ethel | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 83 |
| 2012 | Picture Me Rollin' | Self (voice) | Film | — | 83 |
| 2011 | Mentiras verdaderas | Self (archive footage) | TV | 5.5 | 82 |
| 2011 | J. Edgar | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.2 | 82 |
| 2011 | Hollywood Invasion | archive footage | Film | 6.0 | 82 |
| 2010 | Epic Rap Battles of History | TV | 7.3 | 81 | |
| 2010 | When You're Strange | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 81 |
| 2010 | 2012: Time for Change | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 81 |
| 2010 | COINTELPRO 101 | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 81 |
| 2010 | Roads to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 81 |
| 2009 | Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 80 |
| 2009 | Capitalism: A Love Story | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 80 |
| 2009 | Stand | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 80 |
| 2008 | James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.6 | 79 |
| 2008 | The Day the Troubles Began | Self | Film | — | 79 |
| 2008 | Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene | self - archival footage | Film | 8.4 | 79 |
| 2008 | The Witness from the Balcony of Room 306 | Self | Film | 5.5 | 79 |
| 2007 | L'altra Dallas - Chi ha ucciso RFK? | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.3 | 78 |
| 2007 | King: Man of Peace in a Time of War | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.5 | 78 |
| 2007 | RFK Must Die: The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 78 |
| 2006 | Bobby | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.4 | 77 |
| 2006 | Folk Britannia | Self (archival footage) | TV | — | 77 |
| 2006 | ...So Goes the Nation | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 77 |
| 2005 | No Direction Home: Bob Dylan | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 76 |
| 2004 | Citizen King | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 75 |
| 2003 | The Corporation | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 74 |
| 2003 | Days That Shook the World | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.0 | 74 |
| 2002 | Naqoyqatsi | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 73 |
| 2002 | The Year That Trembled | Self (archive footage) | Film | 3.9 | 73 |
| 2002 | Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 8.0 | 73 |
| 2002 | Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.3 | 73 |
| 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 5.4 | 72 |
| 2000 | The American Nightmare | Self | Film | 6.8 | 71 |
| 1999 | Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 70 |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 68 |
| 1997 | Martin Luther King: Days of Hope | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 1996 | Assassinations That Changed the World | TV | 8.5 | 67 | |
| 1996 | Blue Eyed | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 67 |
| 1996 | All Power to the People! | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.3 | 67 |
| 1995 | Kulturzeit | Self (archive footage) | TV | 4.7 | 66 |
| 1995 | Nixon | (Archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 66 |
| 1994 | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 65 |
| 1992 | The Real Malcolm X | Film | 8.0 | 63 | |
| 1992 | Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century | Film | 10.0 | 63 | |
| 1992 | Death Scenes 2 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.0 | 63 |
| 1991 | The Doors | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.1 | 62 |
| 1988 | American Experience | Himself (archive footage) | TV | 6.5 | 59 |
| 1987 | Dispatches | TV | 6.5 | 58 | |
| 1986 | In Remembrance of Martin | Self | Film | 8.0 | 57 |
| 1985 | Good Intentions | Self (Archival Footage) | Film | — | 56 |
| 1985 | Disasters of the Century | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.5 | 56 |
| 1983 | First Tuesday | TV | — | 54 | |
| 1981 | The Killing of America | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 52 |
| 1979 | The War at Home | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 50 |
| 1978 | James Brown Soul Brother No. 1 | Film | 8.0 | 49 | |
| 1973 | Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 | Self/Cameo (archive footage) | Film | 9.0 | 44 |
| 1973 | Today: While You Were Away (1964-1973 Retrospective) | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 44 |
| 1970 | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 41 |
| 1970 | Владыки без масок. Гарольд Хант - апостол «ультра» | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 41 |
| 1969 | Martin Luther King, Jr: From Montgomery to Memphis | Self | Film | — | 40 |
| 1968 | LBJ | Self | Film | 5.9 | 39 |
| 1967 | Omnibus | Self | TV | 7.2 | 38 |
| 1967 | I Am Curious (Yellow) | Himself | Film | 5.7 | 38 |
| 1967 | Martin Luther King at Newcastle University | Self | Film | — | 38 |
| 1967 | 13 November 1967: Martin Luther King Interview | Film | — | 38 | |
| 1967 | After Civil Rights... Black Power | Self | Film | — | 38 |
| 1966 | Anno Domini MCMLXV | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 37 |
| 1965 | The Bus | Film | 9.0 | 36 | |
| 1964 | Union and Freedom | Himself | Film | — | 35 |
| 1964 | Wealth of a Nation | Self | Film | — | 35 |
| 1964 | The March | Self | Film | 7.0 | 35 |
| 1963 | World in Action | TV | 7.0 | 34 | |
| 1963 | The Negro and the American Promise | Film | — | 34 | |
| 1963 | I Have a Dream | Self | Film | — | 34 |
| 1963 | David Susskind Archive: Interview With Dr. Martin Luther King Jr | himself | Film | — | 34 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 33 |
| 1960 | Integration Report 1 | Self | Film | 7.6 | 31 |
| 1959 | The David Susskind Show | Self | TV | 7.0 | 30 |
| King vs. the United States of America | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | — |