Acting

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2026

as Lt. James Gordon

2024

as Vincent Daugherty

2023		American Fiction as Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison
2023		Rustin as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
2023		Asteroid City as General Gibson

2022		Vengeance in the Making as Self
2022		The Batman as Lt. James Gordon
2022		Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches as Self

2021		Marvel Studios' 2021 Disney+ Day Special as The Watcher (voice) (archive footage)
2021		The French Dispatch as Roebuck Wright
2021		No Time to Die as Felix Leiter
2021		Being James Bond as Self (archive footage)
2021		Monster as Mr. Harmon

2020		American Pathogen as Self - Narrator
2020		The Oedipus Project as Tiresias
2020		All Day and a Night as JD

2019		Marvel Studios: Expanding the Universe as Self
2019		The Laundromat as Malchus Irvin Boncamper
2019		The Goldfinch as James 'Hobie' Hobart
2019		The Public

2018		We Are Not Done Yet as Self
2018		Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook as Narrator (voice)
2018		Moynihan as Narrator (voice)
2018		Hold the Dark as Russell Core
2018		Age Out as Detective Portnoy
2018		O.G. as Louis Menkins
2018		Game Night as FBI Agent Henderson (uncredited)

2017		Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait as Self (archive footage)
2017		Unseen Enemy as Narrator (voice)

2016

as Charles Ogletree

2015		The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 as Beetee
2015		The Good Dinosaur as Poppa (voice)
2015		The Gospel According to Mac as Narrator (voice)
2015		The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 as Self (Beetee)

2014		Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink as Narrator (voice)
2014		The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 as Beetee
2014		The Final Shot: A Farewell to Boardwalk Empire as Self

2013		Only Lovers Left Alive as Dr. Watson
2013		The Hunger Games: Catching Fire as Beetee
2013		The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete as Henry
2013		A Single Shot as Simon
2013		Broken City as Carl Fairbanks

2012

2011		Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as William Black
2011		The Ides of March as Senator Thompson
2011		A Child's Garden of Poetry
2011		Source Code as Dr. Rutledge

2008		Cadillac Records as Muddy Waters
2008		Quantum of Solace as Felix Leiter
2008		W. as Colin Powell
2008		Chicago 10 as Bobby Seale (voice)

2007		Blackout as Nelson
2007		The Invasion as Dr. Stephen Galeano
2007		New Orleans as Narrator (voice)

2006		Blood Diamonds as Narrator (voice)
2006		Casino Royale as Felix Leiter
2006		Becoming Bond as Self
2006		Lady in the Water as Mr. Dury
2006		Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner as Self

2005		Syriana as Bennett Holiday
2005		Broken Flowers as Winston
2005		Lackawanna Blues as Mr. Paul
2005		The True Story of Hannibal as Narrator (voice)

2004		Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson as Other Voices (voice)
2004		The Manchurian Candidate as CPL Al Melvin
2004		Sin's Kitchen as Rex
2004		With All Deliberate Speed as Narrator (Voice)

2003

as Narrator (voice)

2002		The Topdog Diaries as Self / Lincoln
2002		D-Tox as Jaworski

2001		Ali as Howard Bingham
2001		Boycott as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

2000		Crime + Punishment in Suburbia as Chris
2000		Shaft as Peoples Hernandez
2000		Hamlet as Gravedigger
2000		Cement as Ninny

1999		Ride with the Devil as Daniel Holt
1999		The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Mystery of the Blues as Sidney Bechet
1999		The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Scandal of 1920 as Sidney Bechet

1998		Celebrity as Greg
1998		Too Tired to Die as Balzac Man

1997

as Rafael ("Bed Two")

1996		Basquiat as Jean Michel Basquiat
1996		Faithful as Young Man at Rolls

1993

1991

as Derek

1990

as Prosecuting Attorney

Production

2018

… Producer