Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2025 | Highest 2 Lowest (2025) | Director, Executive Producer |
| 2022 | Sidney (2022) | Self |
| 2021 | A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks | Self |
| 2020 | Da 5 Bloods | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 2020 | David Byrne's American Utopia (2021) | Director |
| 2018 | Pass Over | Director, Producer |
| 2018 | BlacKkKlansman | Director |
| 2018 | Nigerian Prince | Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall | Director |
| 2015 | Touched With Fire | Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Chi-Raq | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 2014 | Evolution of a Criminal | Executive Producer |
| 2014 | Da Sweet Blood of Jesus | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 2012 | Red Hook Summer | Mookie |
| 2012 | Bad 25 | Director, Producer |
| 2012 | You're Nobody 'Til Somebody Kills You | Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Pariah | Executive Producer |
| 2011 | Brooklyn Boheme | Actor |
| 2010 | If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise Part 1 | Director |
| 2009 | Passing Strange The Movie | Director, Producer |
| 2009 | Saint John of Las Vegas | Executive Producer |
| 2008 | Miracle at St. Anna | Director, Producer |
| 2006 | Inside Man (2006) | Director |
| 2006 | When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts | Director |
| 2004 | She Hate Me | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 2004 | Sucker Free City | Director, Executive Producer |
| 2002 | Jim Brown: All American | Director, Producer |
| 2002 | 25th Hour | Director |
| 2002 | Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet | Director |
| 2001 | Home Invaders | Executive Producer |
| 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story | Director, Producer |
| 2000 | Love & Basketball | Producer |
| 2000 | Michael Jordan: To the Max | Self |
| 2000 | The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) | Director |
| 2000 | Bamboozled | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 2000 | Lisa Picard Is Famous | Self |
| 1999 | Summer of Sam | Reporter John Jeffries |
| 1999 | The Best Man Wedding | Producer |
| 1998 | He Got Game | Director, Producer, Writer |
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls | Director |
| 1996 | When We Were Kings | Actor |
| 1996 | Get on the Bus | Director, Executive Producer |
| 1996 | Girl 6 | Jimmy |
| 1995 | Lumiere and Company | Actor |
| 1995 | Clockers | Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
| 1995 | Tales From the Hood | Executive Producer |
| 1994 | Crooklyn | Snuffy |
| 1994 | Undefeatable | Diablo |
| 1994 | Drop Squad | Self |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Director |
| 1991 | Jungle Fever | Cyrus |
| 1990 | Mo' Better Blues (1990) | Giant |
| 1989 | Do the Right Thing | Mookie |
| 1988 | School Daze | Half-Pint |
| 1986 | She's Gotta Have It | Mars Blackmon |
| 1983 | Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads | Director, Film Editing, Producer, Writer |
