Walter Cronkite: movies and TV shows
Walter Cronkite has 156 credits in the archive: 115 films and 41 TV series, from 1944 to 2025. Highest rated: HARDtalk (8.7/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2025 · busiest year: 2019 (9 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | One to One: John & Yoko | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 108 |
| 2025 | Sally | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 108 |
| 2025 | JFK Assassination: A New Perspective | Self (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 108 |
| 2024 | Hollywood Black | Self (archive footage) | TV | 3.0 | 107 |
| 2024 | Apollo 13: Survival | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 107 |
| 2024 | The White House Effect | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.1 | 107 |
| 2024 | Bad Hostage | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 107 |
| 2023 | JFK: 24 Hours That Changed the World | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 106 |
| 2022 | Untold: Caitlyn Jenner | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 105 |
| 2022 | Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues | Self (voice) (archive sound) | Film | 6.5 | 105 |
| 2022 | The Martha Mitchell Effect | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.4 | 105 |
| 2022 | The Janes | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.5 | 105 |
| 2021 | Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) | Self - Host, CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 104 |
| 2021 | Fiasco | Self (archive footage) | TV | — | 104 |
| 2021 | Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.8 | 104 |
| 2020 | Challenger: The Final Flight | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.1 | 103 |
| 2020 | Whose Vote Counts, Explained | Self (archive footage) | TV | 6.6 | 103 |
| 2020 | The Real Right Stuff | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.6 | 103 |
| 2020 | The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 103 |
| 2020 | Killing John F. Kennedy | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 103 |
| 2019 | Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 102 |
| 2019 | Apollo 11 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.9 | 102 |
| 2019 | Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool | Self - Anchorman (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 102 |
| 2019 | Apollo: Missions to the Moon | Self - CBS News (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 102 |
| 2019 | Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 102 |
| 2019 | Mike Wallace Is Here | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 102 |
| 2019 | I Am Richard Pryor | Self - Anchorman (archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 102 |
| 2019 | 8 Days: To the Moon and Back | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.4 | 102 |
| 2019 | Apollo: The Forgotten Films | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 102 |
| 2018 | Studio 54 | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 101 |
| 2018 | Reversing Roe | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 101 |
| 2018 | Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 101 |
| 2017 | Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 6.2 | 100 |
| 2017 | The Fabulous Allan Carr | Self (archive) | Film | 4.5 | 100 |
| 2017 | Dateline: Saigon | Self (archival footage) | Film | 8.0 | 100 |
| 2017 | The Reagan Show | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 100 |
| 2015 | The Seventies | Self | TV | 7.4 | 98 |
| 2014 | The Sixties | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.5 | 97 |
| 2014 | The Sixties | Self - CBS News (archive footage) | TV | 7.5 | 97 |
| 2014 | Led Zeppelin Played Here | Self - Newscaster (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 97 |
| 2014 | The Man Who Saved the World | Self | Film | 6.8 | 97 |
| 2014 | Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 97 |
| 2013 | SS United States: Made in America | Self | Film | 8.8 | 96 |
| 2013 | JFK: One PM Central Standard Time | Self (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 96 |
| 2013 | Valentino's Ghost | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.7 | 96 |
| 2013 | Newsflash: Stories That Stopped the World | Self | Film | — | 96 |
| 2012 | Free Angela and All Political Prisoners | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 95 |
| 2012 | Ethel | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.9 | 95 |
| 2011 | Gloria: In Her Own Words | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 94 |
| 2011 | Home Away From Home: The Yanks in Ireland | Narrator | Film | — | 94 |
| 2008 | Milk | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 91 |
| 2008 | Legacy of War | Host | Film | — | 91 |
| 2008 | SS United States: Lady in Waiting | Self | Film | 9.0 | 91 |
| 2008 | Man on the Moon with Walter Cronkite | Reporter | Film | 6.0 | 91 |
| 2007 | The Pixar Story | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.5 | 90 |
| 2007 | War Made Easy | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 90 |
| 2007 | Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater | Self | Film | 6.0 | 90 |
| 2006 | This Film Is Not Yet Rated | Self - 1968 TV Newscaster (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.1 | 89 |
| 2006 | The U.S. vs. John Lennon | Self | Film | 6.7 | 89 |
| 2006 | Apollo 13: The Inside Story | Self - CBS Evening News Anchorman | Film | 7.0 | 89 |
| 2006 | The Making of 'Network' | Self | Film | — | 89 |
| 2006 | Woodward and Bernstein: Lighting the Fire | Self | Film | — | 89 |
| 2006 | The Nuremberg Trials | Self | Film | 8.0 | 89 |
| 2006 | Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat | Self | Film | 6.0 | 89 |
| 2006 | Return to Flight HD: The Inside Story | Host | Film | — | 89 |
| 2005 | A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin | Film | 6.4 | 88 | |
| 2005 | Edward R. Murrow - The McCarthy Years | Host | Film | — | 88 |
| 2004 | Empire of Dreams: The Story of the Star Wars Trilogy | Self | Film | 7.6 | 87 |
| 2004 | America's Choir: The Story of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir | Narrator | Film | — | 87 |
| 2004 | Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 87 |
| 2003 | JFK II: The Bush Connection | Self - Anchor, CBS News (voice) (archive sound) | Film | 7.0 | 86 |
| 2003 | JFK: Breaking the News | Self (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 86 |
| 2003 | Silent Night, Holy Night with Walter Cronkite | Self | Film | — | 86 |
| 2003 | Journalists: Killed in the Line of Duty | Narrator (voice) | Film | — | 86 |
| 2003 | Amateur Radio Today | Self | Film | — | 86 |
| 2002 | Liberty's Kids | Benjamin Franklin (voice) | TV | 7.7 | 85 |
| 2002 | Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony | Self (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 85 |
| 2002 | S.O.S. Planet | Self | Film | 6.7 | 85 |
| 2002 | Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story | Self (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 85 |
| 2001 | O Holy Night: Christmas At Concordia | Narrator | Film | — | 84 |
| 2001 | On Common Ground | Self - Commentator | Film | — | 84 |
| 2001 | Korean War Stories | Film | 8.5 | 84 | |
| 2000 | Thirteen Days | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.0 | 83 |
| 2000 | The American President | George Washington | TV | 8.0 | 83 |
| 2000 | Fail Safe | Self - Host | Film | 6.9 | 83 |
| 1999 | Television: The First Fifty Years | Self | Film | — | 82 |
| 1998 | War and Civilization | Self - Narrator | TV | 10.0 | 81 |
| 1998 | Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance | Host | Film | — | 81 |
| 1997 | HARDtalk | TV | 8.7 | 80 | |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls | Self - Special Correspondent CBS News | Film | 7.2 | 80 |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Self | TV | 4.1 | 79 |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | TV | 8.2 | 79 | |
| 1996 | All Power to the People! | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.3 | 79 |
| 1996 | Corwin | Self | Film | 5.0 | 79 |
| 1995 | Apollo 13 | Film | 7.5 | 78 | |
| 1994 | The Secret of the Wild Child | Self | Film | 8.0 | 77 |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest | TV | 7.3 | 76 |
| 1993 | We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story | Captain Neweyes (voice) | Film | 6.1 | 76 |
| 1993 | Beyond JFK: The Question of Conspiracy | Self - CBS News | Film | 5.8 | 76 |
| 1993 | As it Happened: The Killing of Kennedy | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 76 |
| 1992 | The Real Malcolm X | Film | 8.0 | 75 | |
| 1992 | Titanic: Treasure of the Deep | Self | Film | 8.5 | 75 |
| 1991 | Dinosaur! | Self - Host | TV | — | 74 |
| 1991 | The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.9 | 74 |
| 1990 | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | Film | 4.0 | 73 |
| 1990 | Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music | Self | Film | 10.0 | 73 |
| 1990 | Nixon | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 73 |
| 1989 | Back to Neverland | Walter Cronkite | Film | 7.0 | 72 |
| 1989 | John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation | Self - Host | Film | — | 72 |
| 1989 | 50 Years of Television: A Golden Celebration | Self - Host | Film | 9.0 | 72 |
| 1988 | Murphy Brown | Walter Cronkite | TV | 6.4 | 71 |
| 1988 | American Experience | Self | TV | 6.5 | 71 |
| 1988 | American Experience | Self (archive footage) | TV | 6.5 | 71 |
| 1988 | An Empire of Reason | Self | Film | — | 71 |
| 1988 | Who Shot President Kennedy? | Self | Film | 8.0 | 71 |
| 1988 | Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration | Self | Film | 8.0 | 71 |
| 1986 | American Masters | Self - Interviewee (archive footage) | TV | 7.0 | 69 |
| 1985 | Television | TV | 8.0 | 68 | |
| 1985 | The Dream Is Alive | Narrator | Film | 7.5 | 68 |
| 1985 | Vietnam War with Walter Cronkite | Self | TV | — | 68 |
| 1984 | J.F.K.: A One-Man Show | Self - Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 67 |
| 1983 | 1984 Revisited | Himself | Film | — | 66 |
| 1983 | I, Leonardo: A Journey of the Mind | Self - Host | Film | 10.0 | 66 |
| 1982 | Why was Cairo Calm | Film | — | 65 | |
| 1981 | Walt Disney: One Man's Dream | Self | Film | — | 64 |
| 1980 | Hispanic America | Self | Film | — | 63 |
| 1980 | A Private Battle | Self | Film | 9.0 | 63 |
| 1978 | The Kennedy Center Honors | Self - Master of Ceremonies | TV | 7.4 | 61 |
| 1976 | All the President's Men | Self (archive sound) (uncredited) | Film | 7.7 | 59 |
| 1976 | Network | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.8 | 59 |
| 1974 | Dinah! | Self | TV | 7.0 | 57 |
| 1974 | New England Our Way | Self | Film | — | 57 |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self - Host | TV | 6.1 | 54 |
| 1970 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Walter Cronkite | TV | 7.6 | 53 |
| 1969 | Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 | Himself - News Anchor | TV | 9.0 | 52 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 51 |
| 1968 | The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.6 | 51 |
| 1965 | The Making of an Underground Film | Self | Film | 6.0 | 48 |
| 1963 | World in Action | TV | 7.0 | 46 | |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | TV | 5.8 | 44 |
| 1961 | CBS Evening News | Self - Anchor | TV | 5.3 | 44 |
| 1961 | CBS Evening News | Self | TV | 5.3 | 44 |
| 1961 | CBS Reports: Biography of a Bookie Joint | Self - Narrator | Film | — | 44 |
| 1958 | The Incredible Turk | Narrator | Film | 8.0 | 41 |
| 1957 | The Twentieth Century | TV | 8.0 | 40 | |
| 1957 | The Twentieth Century | Self - Narrator | TV | 8.0 | 40 |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Presenter | TV | — | 39 |
| 1956 | The Steve Allen Show | Self | TV | 6.2 | 39 |
| 1954 | Climax! | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 3.8 | 37 |
| 1954 | The Wonderful World of Disney | Self | TV | 7.9 | 37 |
| 1953 | You Are There | Self - Host | TV | 6.0 | 36 |
| 1952 | Two for the Money | TV | 10.0 | 35 | |
| 1951 | The Price of Liberty | Narrator(voice) | Film | — | 34 |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self | TV | 6.8 | 31 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 27 |
| Man on the Moon: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 | Self | Film | — | — |