Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
| 2025 | BFFs (2025) | Actor |
| 2024 | Shirley (2024) | Arthur Hardwick Jr. |
| 2024 | Crescent City (2024) | Brian Sutter |
| 2023 | Showdown at the Grand (2023) | George Fuller |
| 2022 | The Walk (2022) | Lamont Robbins |
| 2022 | The System (2022) | Bones |
| 2021 | Triumph (2021) | Coach Cutting |
| 2019 | Gully (2021) | Mr. Christmas |
| 2016 | Term Life | Braydon |
| 2016 | Cardboard Boxer | Pope |
| 2014 | Sabotage (1936) | Julius "Sugar" Edmonds |
| 2014 | St. Vincent | Zucko |
| 2014 | Lullaby (2014) | Actor |
| 2014 | Take Me to the River (2014) | Narrator |
| 2013 | Movie 43 | Coach Jackson |
| 2013 | Lee Daniels' The Butler | Howard |
| 2013 | Dead Man Down | Alphonse |
| 2013 | Prisoners | Franklin Birch |
| 2013 | The Best Man Holiday | Quentin |
| 2012 | Red Tails | Col. A.J. Bullard |
| 2012 | The Company You Keep | FBI Agent Cornelius |
| 2011 | The Ledge | Hollis |
| 2011 | Winnie Mandela | Nelson Mandela |
| 2011 | Ghost of New Orleans | Drag Hammerman |
| 2009 | Fighting | Harvey Boarden |
| 2009 | The Princess and the Frog | James |
| 2008 | Iron Man (2008) | Jim "Rhodey" Rhodes |
| 2007 | Awake (2007) | Dr. Jack Harper |
| 2007 | The Brave One | Det. Mercer |
| 2007 | Pride (2007) | Jim Ellis |
| 2007 | August Rush | Richard Jeffries |
| 2007 | The Hunting Party | Duck |
| 2007 | The Perfect Holiday | Bah-Humbug |
| 2007 | Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita | Self |
| 2006 | Idlewild | Trumpy |
| 2006 | The World According to Sesame Street | Actor |
| 2005 | Get Rich or Die Tryin' | Barna |
| 2005 | Hustle & Flow | Djay |
| 2005 | Four Brothers | Lt. Green |
| 2005 | The Salon | Patrick |
| 2005 | Lackawanna Blues | Bill Crosby |
| 2005 | Their Eyes Were Dry Event | Amos Hicks |
| 2004 | Crash (2005) | Cameron |
| 2004 | Ray (2004) | Gossie McKee |
| 2002 | Hart's War | Lt. Lincoln A. Scott |
| 2001 | Angel Eyes | Robby |
| 2001 | Glitter | Timothy Walker |
| 2001 | Investigating Sex | Lorenz |
| 2001 | Boycott | Ralph Abernathy |
| 2000 | Love Beat The Hell Outta Me | Chris |
| 2000 | Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World | Cassius Clay |
| 1999 | Best Laid Plans | Jimmy |
| 1999 | The Best Man Wedding | Quentin |
| 1996 | Johns | Jimmy the Warlock |
| 1995 | Dead Presidents | Cowboy |
