Filmography

American Experience
1988 · Director

Independent Lens
1999 · Director

American Masters
1986 · Director

Bill Russell: Legend
2023 · Director

Eyes on the Prize
1987 · Director, Writer

Atlanta's Missing and Murdered: The Lost Children
2020 · Director

Why We Hate
2019 · Director

Photographer
2024 · Director

The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
2002 · Director, Writer

Hostages
2022 · Director

Ol' Dirty Bastard: A Tale of Two Dirtys
2024 · Director

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes
2023 · Director

Mr. SOUL!
2018 · Director

Tutu
2026 · Director
- No Poster
I'll Make Me a World
1999 · Director

I Was Born This Way
2025 · Director

MLK/FBI
2020 · Director

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015 · Director

South to Black Power
2023 · Director

Black Art: In the Absence of Light
2021 · Director

Citizen Ashe
2021 · Director

Acorn and the Firestorm
2017 · Director, Writer
- No Poster
Murder in America: The Lynching of Emmett Till
Director

Maynard
2017 · Director, Writer

Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
2022 · Director

Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me
2017 · Director

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2008 · Director
- No Poster
The Sound of Philadelphia
Director

The League
2023 · Director

Two Trains Runnin'
2016 · Director

Subject
2023 · Acting

The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001 · Director
- No Poster
The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
2023 · Director

Goin' Back to T-Town
1993 · Director
- No Poster
Chinatown Film Project
2009 · Director

The Talk: Race in America
2017 · Director

Slavery by Another Name
2012 · Director
- No Poster
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On
2008 · Director, Writer

John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend
2006 · Director

The Lorraine
2026 · Director
- No Poster
Style Wars In The Cutting Room
2014 · Acting
- No Poster
Rise and Rebuild: A Tale of Three Cities
2022 · Director
- No Poster
Mr. Soul: Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV
2010 · Director
- No Poster
Counting The Ballots
Director
- No Poster
Love That Movie
2009 · Director, Writer
