Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2026 | Newborn (2026) | Chris Newborn |
| 2023 | The Book of Clarence (2024) | Actor |
| 2022 | Elemental: Redefining Our Relationship with Wildfire (2022) | Narrator |
| 2022 | See How They Run (2022) | Mervyn Cocker-Norris |
| 2022 | A Lot of Nothing (2023) | Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Chaos Walking | Aaron |
| 2021 | Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway | Nigel Basil-Jones |
| 2021 | Ferguson Rises | Producer |
| 2020 | The Midnight Sky (2020) | Adewole |
| 2020 | Come Away | Jack Littleton |
| 2020 | The Water Man (2021) | Amos Boone |
| 2019 | Don't Let Go | Jack Radcliff |
| 2018 | The Cloverfield Paradox | Kiel |
| 2018 | Gringo (2018) | Harold Soyinka |
| 2016 | Queen of Katwe | Robert Katende |
| 2016 | Nina | Clifton Henderson |
| 2016 | A United Kingdom | Seretse Khama |
| 2015 | Captive | Brian Nichols |
| 2015 | Five Nights in Maine | Sherwin |
| 2014 | Interstellar (2014) | Principal |
| 2014 | A Most Violent Year | Lawrence |
| 2014 | Default (2014) | Atlas |
| 2014 | Selma | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
| 2014 | Nightingale | Peter Snowden |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | Louis Gaines |
| 2013 | Girl Rising | Narrator |
| 2012 | Red Tails | Joe "Lightning" Little |
| 2012 | The Paperboy | Yardley Acheman |
| 2012 | Jack Reacher (2012) | Detective Emerson |
| 2012 | Middle of Nowhere | Brian |
| 2011 | Rise of the Planet of the Apes | Steven Jacobs |
| 2011 | 96 Minutes | Duane |
| 2008 | Who Do You Love | Muddy Waters |
| 2006 | As You Like It | Orlando De Boys |
| 2006 | The Last King of Scotland | Dr. Junju |
| 2006 | PAFF: Shoot the Messenger (2006) | Joseph Pascale |
| 2005 | A Sound of Thunder | Tech Officer Payne |
