Filmography

Independent Lens
1999 · Director

The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011 · Acting

Hollywood Black
2024 · Acting

The Blues
2003 · Director, Writer

Killer of Sheep
1978 · Director, Writer

To Sleep with Anger
1990 · Director, Writer

Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022 · Acting

42 One Dream Rush
2010 · Director

The Glass Shield
1994 · Director, Writer

Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation
2007 · Director, Writer

Nightjohn
1996 · Director

The Annihilation of Fish
1999 · Director

Finding Buck McHenry
2000 · Director

My Brother's Wedding
1985 · Director, Writer

We Blew It
2017 · Acting

Bless Their Little Hearts
1984 · Writer

Dreams Are Colder Than Death
2014 · Acting

These Amazing Shadows
2011 · Acting

Selma, Lord, Selma
1999 · Director

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · Director, Writer, Acting

Relative Stranger
2009 · Director

The Wedding
1998 · Director

Warming by the Devil's Fire
2003 · Director, Writer
- No Poster
Documenta X - Die Filme
1997 · Director

Spirits of Rebellion: Black Cinema at UCLA
2016 · Acting

The Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution
2018 · Director

Cinetracts '20
2020 · Director, Writer
- No Poster
Quiet as Kept
2007 · Director, Writer

Several Friends
1969 · Director, Writer

America Becoming
1991 · Director, Writer

Charles Burnett : Le rebelle silencieux de Watts
2022 · Acting
- No Poster
For Reel?
2003 · Director, Writer

A Walk with Charles Burnett
2019 · Acting

When It Rains
1995 · Director, Writer

The Horse
1973 · Director, Writer
- No Poster
Olivia's Story
2000 · Director, Acting

The Final Insult
1997 · Director, Writer
