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James Baldwin Acting Filmography (26)

The New Yorker at 100
2025·Self (archive footage)
James Baldwin Abroad
2023·Self
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022·Self (archive footage)
Madonna: Madame X
2021·Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
i ran from it and was still in it
2021·Self (voice) (archive footage)
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020·Self
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
2018·Self (archive footage)
Mr. SOUL!
2018·Self (archive footage)
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
The Madding Crowd
2017·Self (archive footage)
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
2014·Self (archive footage)
Off-White Tulips
2013·Self
Public Speaking
2011·Self (archive footage)
The James Baldwin Anthology
2003
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989·Self (archive footage)
The Statue of Liberty
1985·Self - Writer
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
1978·Himself
James Baldwin: From Another Place
1973·Self
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
1971·Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970·Self (archive footage)
Baldwin's Nigger
1968·Self
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
1965·Self
Take This Hammer
1964·Self
The Negro and the American Promise
1963
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
1962·Self