| Daedalus (2024) Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited) |
| Maya Angelou at the BBC (2024) Self (archive footage) |
| Why Is We Americans? (2022) Self |
| A Song for Cesar: Beware a Movement That Sings (2021) Self |
| Minha Bateria Está Fraca e Está Ficando Tarde (2020) Self |
| Becky and the Birds (2018) Self (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Words Are Things (2018) Narrator (voice) |
| Mr. SOUL! (2018) Self (archive footage) |
| Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016) Self (archive footage) |
| I Hope You Dance: The Power and Spirit of Song (2015) Self |
| The Power of the Heart (2014) Self |
| Paul Simon: Under African Skies (2012) Self |
| On the Shoulders of Giants (2011) |
| One Night in Vegas (2010) Self |
| Good Hair (2009) Self |
| The Black Candle (2009) Self - Narrator |
| Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed (2008) Self |
| Madea's Family Reunion (2006) May |
| Sisters in Cinema (2003) Self |
| The Unfinished Journey (1999) Self |
| Quincy Jones...The First 50 Years (1998) Self |
| The Enchanted Island Madagascar: The Living Edens (1998) Narrator |
| Perfect Moment (1997) Self |
| Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas (1996) Narrator (voice) |
| Angelou on Burns (1996) |
| How to Make an American Quilt (1995) Anna |
| Sesame Street | All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever! (1994) Self (archive footage) |
| Malcolm X: Make It Plain (1994) Self |
| There Are No Children Here (1993) Lelia Mae |
| Poetic Justice (1993) Aunt June |
| Kindred Spirits: Contemporary African American Artists (1992) Anchor |
| James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket (1989) Self |
| Aimé Césaire, le masque des mots (1987) Self |
| The Richard Pryor Special? (1977) Willie's Wife |
| Porgy and Bess (1959) Dancer |
| Calypso Heat Wave (1957) |