Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2025 | The King of Kings (2025) | Peter |
| 2024 | Layla (2025) | Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World (2 | Doc Broadus |
| 2023 | Fancy Dance (2024) | Executive Producer |
| 2023 | To Live and Die and Live (2023) | Producer |
| 2021 | Respect (2021) | Rev. C.L. Franklin |
| 2021 | Passing (2021) | Producer |
| 2020 | Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) | Jeronicus |
| 2018 | Black Panther (2018) | Zuri |
| 2018 | Triumph: The Untold Story of Perry Wallace | Narrator |
| 2018 | Sorry to Bother You | First Equisapien/Demarius |
| 2018 | City of Lies | Jack Jackson |
| 2018 | Burden (2020) | Reverend Kennedy |
| 2018 | Finding Steve McQueen | Howard Lambert |
| 2017 | We Are One | Executive Producer, Narrator |
| 2017 | The Forgiven (2018) | Desmond Tutu |
| 2016 | Rogue One: A Star Wars Story | Saw Gerrera |
| 2016 | Arrival | Colonel Weber |
| 2015 | Southpaw | Tick Willis |
| 2015 | Dope | Narrator, Producer |
| 2015 | Songs My Brothers Taught Me | Producer |
| 2014 | Food Chains | Narrator |
| 2014 | Taken 3 | Inspector Frank Dotzler |
| 2014 | Two Men in Town | William Garnett |
| 2013 | The Last Stand | Agent John Bannister |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | Cecil Gaines |
| 2013 | Out of the Furnace | Wesley Barnes |
| 2013 | Fruitvale Station (2013) | Producer |
| 2013 | Black Nativity | Rev. Cornell Cobbs |
| 2013 | Pawn | Will |
| 2013 | Mysteries of the Unseen World | Narrator |
| 2013 | Sewing Hope | Narrator |
| 2012 | Freelancers | LaRue |
| 2012 | Ernest & Celestine | Ernest |
| 2012 | A Dark Truth | Francisco Francis |
| 2012 | Rising From Ashes | Executive Producer, Narrator |
| 2011 | Catch .44 | Ronny |
| 2010 | The Experiment | Barris |
| 2010 | Our Family Wedding | Bradford Boyd |
| 2010 | Repo Men | Jake |
| 2010 | Higglety Pigglety Pop! | Lion |
| 2009 | Hurricane Season | Al Collins |
| 2009 | Where the Wild Things Are | Ira |
| 2009 | Powder Blue | Charlie |
| 2009 | Toys in the Attic | Teddy |
| 2008 | Vantage Point | Howard Lewis |
| 2008 | Street Kings | Capt. Jack Wander |
| 2008 | Dragon Hunters | Lian-Chu |
| 2008 | Crips and Bloods: Made in America | Narrator |
| 2008 | Fragments | Charlie Archenault |
| 2007 | The Air I Breathe | Happiness |
| 2007 | AMEX Exclusive: The Great Debaters | Dr. James Farmer Sr. |
| 2007 | Ripple Effect | Philip |
| 2006 | Everyone's Hero | Lonnie Brewster |
| 2006 | The Last King of Scotland | Idi Amin |
| 2006 | Even Money | Clyde Snow |
| 2005 | American Gun | Carter |
| 2005 | A Little Trip to Heaven | Holt |
| 2005 | Mary (2005) | Ted Younger |
| 2004 | First Daughter | Director, Executive Producer |
| 2004 | Jiminy Glick in Lalawood | Self |
| 2003 | Chasing Papi | Producer |
| 2002 | Panic Room | Burnham |
| 2002 | Phone Booth (2002) | Captain Ramey |
| 2001 | The Fourth Angel | Agent Jules Bernard |
| 2000 | Battlefield Earth (2000) | Ker |
| 1999 | Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai | Ghost Dog |
| 1999 | Light It Up | Officer Dante Jackson |
| 1998 | Hope Floats | Director |
| 1996 | Phenomenon | Nate Pope |
| 1995 | Waiting to Exhale | Director |
| 1995 | Smoke | Cyrus Cole |
| 1995 | Species (1995) | Dan Smithson, Empath |
| 1994 | Pret-a-Porter | Cy Bianco |
| 1994 | Jason's Lyric (1994) | Maddog |
| 1993 | Body Snatchers | Major Collins |
| 1992 | The Crying Game | Jody |
| 1991 | A Rage in Harlem | Jackson |
| 1988 | Bird (1988) | Charlie 'Bird' Parker |
| 1988 | Bloodsport | Rawlins |
| 1987 | Good Morning, Vietnam | Edward Garlick |
| 1986 | Platoon | Big Harold |
| 1986 | The Color of Money | Amos |
| 1985 | Vision Quest | Bulldozer |
| 1982 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | Charles Jefferson |
