Filmography

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · Acting

The Daily Show
1996 · Acting

Late Show with David Letterman
1993 · Acting

Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · Acting

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · Acting

Saturday Night Live
1975 · Acting

The View
1997 · Acting

Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Acting

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Acting

The Tamron Hall Show
2019 · Acting

Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993 · Acting

Great Performances
1971 · Acting

The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · Acting

The South Bank Show
1978 · Acting
- No Poster
Film '72
1971 · Acting

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · Acting

Desus & Mero
2019 · Acting

In Living Color
1990 · Acting

The Oscars
1953 · Acting

Shark
2006 · Director

Basketball: A Love Story
2018 · Acting

Who Do You Think You Are?
2010 · Acting

The Men in Blazers Show
2014 · Acting

The Chris Rock Show
1997 · Acting

Ghostwriter
1992 · Acting

Yo! MTV Raps
1988 · Acting

The Early Show
1999 · Acting

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
1973 · Acting

Inside Man
2006 · Director

BlacKkKlansman
2018 · Director, Writer

Directors on Directors
2021 · Acting

Oldboy
2013 · Director

Pretend It's a City
2021 · Acting

Highest 2 Lowest
2025 · Director

Do the Right Thing
1989 · Director, Writer, Acting

Dear...
2020 · Acting

She's Gotta Have It
2017 · Director, Writer, Acting

Mr. Scorsese
2025 · Acting

Malcolm X
1992 · Director, Writer, Acting

25th Hour
2002 · Director
- No Poster
Johnny Vaughan Tonight
2002 · Acting

Hollywood Black
2024 · Acting

This Is Pop
2021 · Acting

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006 · Director, Writer

They Call Me Magic
2022 · Acting

Jungle Fever
1991 · Director, Writer, Acting

Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
2025 · Director

He Got Game
1998 · Director, Writer

Da 5 Bloods
2020 · Director, Writer

Clockers
1995 · Director, Writer, Acting

Miracle at St. Anna
2008 · Director

When We Were Kings
1996 · Acting

Miracle's Boys
2005 · Director

Summer of Sam
1999 · Director, Writer, Acting

She's Gotta Have It
1986 · Director, Writer, Acting

She Hate Me
2004 · Director, Writer

Crooklyn
1994 · Director, Writer, Acting
- No Poster
It's the Shoes
2005 · Acting

Inside the Actors Studio
1994 · Acting

Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025 · Acting

Get on the Bus
1996 · Director

David Byrne's American Utopia
2020 · Director

Mo' Better Blues
1990 · Director, Writer, Acting

Bamboozled
2000 · Director, Writer

AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy
2026 · Acting

School Daze
1988 · Director, Writer, Acting

NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
2021 · Director

Sophie Marceau, à voix haute
2026 · Acting

The Concert for New York City
2001 · Director

If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
2010 · Director, Writer

A Huey P. Newton Story
2001 · Director

Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
2016 · Director, Acting

Michael Jordan to the Max
2000 · Acting

Sidney
2022 · Acting

4 Little Girls
1997 · Director, Writer, Acting

All the Invisible Children
2006 · Director

The Original Kings of Comedy
2000 · Director

Girl 6
1996 · Director, Acting

Bad 25
2012 · Director, Acting

Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
2015 · Director, Writer

Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002 · Director

Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
2018 · Acting

Decade
1989 · Acting

Lumière & Company
1995 · Director, Acting

Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
2021 · Acting

Plankton Salesmen
2017 · Acting

A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
2021 · Acting

Lisa Picard Is Famous
2000 · Acting

Red Hook Summer
2012 · Director, Writer, Acting

3 A.M.
2001 · Acting

Chi-Raq
2015 · Director, Writer

Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012 · Acting

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996 · Acting

The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003 · Acting

On the Shoulders of Giants
2011 · Acting

Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009 · Director, Acting

Hoop Dreams
1994 · Acting

A Man's Story
2011 · Acting

HIStory on Film, Volume II
1997 · Director

No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2004 · Acting

Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
2013 · Director

Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store
2014 · Director

Denzel Washington: A Model American
2022 · Acting

PoliWood
2009 · Acting

Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife
2014 · Director

Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo
1999 · Director

A Century of Cinema
1994 · Acting

Birth of a Movement
2017 · Acting

It's Black Entertainment
2002 · Acting

Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993 · Acting

Brooklyn Boheme
2012 · Acting

Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella
1990 · Acting

Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014 · Acting

Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
2010 · Acting

By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005 · Acting

French Cinema Mon Amour
2015 · Acting

Sucker Free City
2004 · Director

Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004 · Acting

First Works
1989 · Acting

Public Enemy: Fight the Power... Live!
1989 · Acting

Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: The Greatest Catch Ever
2015 · Director, Acting

We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014 · Acting

MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
1991 · Acting

Guest
2011 · Acting

40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008 · Acting

The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
2002 · Acting

Jim Brown: All-American
2002 · Director

Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
1983 · Director, Writer

Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?
2023 · Acting

Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia
1998 · Director

A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
2022 · Acting

How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
2005 · Acting

Drop Squad
1994 · Acting
- No Poster
New York at the Movies
2002 · Acting

Four Days in October
2010 · Acting
- No Poster
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008 · Acting
- No Poster
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989 · Acting

Bernie Mac: Live from Charlotte
2000 · Director

Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella
1990 · Director, Acting

Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004 · Acting

Gold Blooded
2022 · Acting

Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience
2014 · Director, Acting

Jesus Children of America
2005 · Director

Kobe Doin' Work
2009 · Director, Acting

Street Fight
2005 · Acting

The Last Party
1993 · Acting

Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation
2005 · Acting

Champs
2015 · Acting

Lights, Action, Music
2007 · Acting

Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1
2018 · Acting

Pixote In Memoriam
2007 · Acting

John Leguizamo: Freak
1998 · Director

The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001 · Director, Acting

Passing Strange
2009 · Director

13 Steps - Die unglaubliche Karriere von Edwin Moses
2024 · Acting

Rodney King
2017 · Director

Boner
Director, Writer

Prince and the N.P.G.: Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection
1992 · Director

Apart
2026 · Writer
- No Poster
Director Spike Lee's New York City
2015 · Acting

The Universal Story
1996 · Acting

The Answer
1980 · Director

3 Brothers: Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd
2020 · Director

New York New York
2020 · Director

The Moviemakers: Spike Lee
2023 · Acting

Through the Fire
2005 · Acting

Below the Rim
1995 · Acting
- No Poster
Amex Unstaged Pharrell Williams Live at the Apollo
2014 · Director

Lonely in America
1990 · Acting

Pass Over
2018 · Director

Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth
2015 · Director, Acting
- No Poster
Throw Like A Girl
2014 · Director

Land of the Free
2019 · Director

Sous les marches du palais
1991 · Acting

Farewell, Babylon!
1993 · Acting

I Can't Breathe
2014 · Director, Writer

Branford Marsalis: Steep
1991 · Acting
- No Poster
Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson
1990 · Director, Acting

Horn of Plenty
1986 · Director, Writer
- No Poster
Our Hollywood Education
1992 · Acting

2 Fists Up
2016 · Director
- No Poster
Sarah
1981 · Director

Be Truly Free
2017 · Director, Acting
