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Best Spike Lee Movies Ranked

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Spike Lee Acting Filmography (90)

The 51st AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy
2026·Self
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025·Self (archive footage)
Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?
2023·self
The Moviemakers: Spike Lee
2023·Self
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
2022·Self
Sidney
2022·Self
Denzel Washington: A Model American
2022·Self
Gold Blooded
2022·Self
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
2021·Self
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
2021·Self
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
2018·Self
Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1
2018·Self
Be Truly Free
2017·Narrator (voice)
Birth of a Movement
2017·Self
Plankton Salesmen
2017·Self (archive footage)
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
2016·Self
Champs
2015·Self
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015·Self
Director Spike Lee's New York City
2015·Self
Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth
2015
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: The Greatest Catch Ever
2015·self
NBA 2K16’s Livin’ Da Dream: A Spike Lee Joint
2015·Reporter (voice)
Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience
2014·self
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014·Self
Brooklyn Boheme
2012·Self
Bad 25
2012·Self
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012·Self
Red Hook Summer
2012·Mr. Mookie
Guest
2011·Self
A Man's Story
2011·Self
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
2010·Self
Four Days in October
2010·Self (archive footage)
PoliWood
2009·Self
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009·Self
Kobe Doin' Work
2009·Self
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008·Self
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
Pixote In Memoriam
2007·Self
Lights, Action, Music
2007·Self
Street Fight
2005·Self
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005·Self
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
2005
Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation
2005·Self
Through the Fire
2005
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004·Self
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2004·Self
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004·Self
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003·Self
New York at the Movies
2002·Self
It's Black Entertainment
2002·Self
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
2002·Self
3 A.M.
2001·Filmmaker
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001·Self
Michael Jordan to the Max
2000·Self
Lisa Picard Is Famous
2000·Spike Lee
Summer of Sam
1999·John Jeffries
4 Little Girls
1997·Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
When We Were Kings
1996·Self
Girl 6
1996·Jimmy
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996·Self
The Universal Story
1996·Self (archive footage)
Clockers
1995·Chucky
Below the Rim
1995
Lumière & Company
1995·Self (segment "Sarah Moon")
Crooklyn
1994·Snuffy
Hoop Dreams
1994·Self
A Century of Cinema
1994·Self
Drop Squad
1994·Himself
The Last Party
1993·Self
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993
Farewell, Babylon!
1993·Self
Malcolm X
1992·Shorty
Our Hollywood Education
1992·Self
Jungle Fever
1991·Cyrus
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
1991·Self
Sous les marches du palais
1991·Self
Branford Marsalis: Steep
1991·Self
Lonely in America
1990·Spike Lee (Newsstand Customer) (uncredited)
Mo' Better Blues
1990·Giant
Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella
1990·Self
Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella
1990
Do the Right Thing
1989·Mookie
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989·Self
First Works
1989·Self
Decade
1989·Self
Public Enemy: Fight the Power... Live!
1989
School Daze
1988·Darrell 'Half-Pint' Dunlap
She's Gotta Have It
1986·Mars Blackmon
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