| — | Hate to See You Go | Sonny Bell |
| 2025 | My Dead Friend Zoe | Dr. Cole |
| 2025 | Now You See Me 3 | Thaddeus Bradley |
| 2024 | Odysseus Returns | Narrator |
| 2023 | The Alphabet Movie | Wizard Zero |
| 2021 | Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self |
| — | The Little Bedroom | |
| — | The Blues Live On! The Delta Blues Museum | Narrator (voice) |
| — | Sniff | Joe Mulwray |
| — | The Promised Land | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2024 | Gunner | Kendrick Ryker |
| 2024 | How to Rob a Bank | Azeem (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Lioness | Secretary of State Edwin Mullins |
| 2023 | 57 Seconds | Anton Burrell |
| 2023 | A Good Person | Daniel |
| 2023 | The Ritual Killer | Dr. Mackles |
| 2023 | Life on Our Planet | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2023 | The Muppets Mayhem | Self |
| 2023 | 100 Years of Warner Bros. | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2023 | 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers | Self |
| 2022 | Paradise Highway | Gerick |
| 2022 | The Minute You Wake Up Dead | Sheriff Thurmond Fowler |
| 2022 | Our Universe | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2022 | Sidney | Self |
| 2022 | Clint Eastwood: The Last Legend | Self (archive footage) |
| 2022 | Betty White: A Celebration | Self |
| 2021 | Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard | Senior |
| 2021 | Coming 2 America | Morgan Freeman |
| 2021 | Vanquish | Damon |
| 2021 | Solos | Stuart |
| 2021 | Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It | Self |
| 2021 | Morgan Freeman: Breaking Barriers | Self |
| 2021 | History's Greatest Escapes with Morgan Freeman | Self - Host |
| 2021 | Oscar Micheaux: The Superhero of Black Filmmaking | Self |
| 2020 | The Comeback Trail | Reggie Fontaine |
| 2020 | Dave Chappelle: The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize | Self |
| 2020 | The Disney Family Singalong - Volume II | Self |
| 2020 | Meeting the Beatles in India | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Into Nature's Wild | Narrator (voice) |
| 2019 | Angel Has Fallen | Alan Trumbull |
| 2019 | The Poison Rose | Doc |
| 2019 | Brian Banks | Jerome Johnson (uncredited) |
| 2019 | Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? | Morgan Freeman (voice) |
| 2019 | Panama Canal in 3D a Land Divided a World United | Self |
| 2018 | The Nutcracker and the Four Realms | Drosselmeyer |
| 2018 | America's Musical Journey | Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Die Clint Eastwood Story | Self |
| 2017 | Going in Style | Willie Davis |
| 2017 | Just Getting Started | Duke |
| 2017 | March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step | Narrator (english voice) |
| 2017 | The Words That Built America | Self - Reader - Declaration of Independence |
| 2017 | The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman | Self - Host |
| 2017 | Laddie: The Man Behind the Movies | Self |
| 2016 | Now You See Me 2 | Thaddeus Bradley |
| 2016 | London Has Fallen | Alan Trumbull |
| 2016 | Ben-Hur | Sheik Ilderim |
| 2016 | The Story of God with Morgan Freeman | Self - Host |
| 2016 | The C Word | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Ted 2 | Patrick Meighan |
| 2015 | Last Knights | Bartok |
| 2015 | Momentum | Senator |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2015 | JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness | Narrator (voice) |
| 2014 | Lucy | Professor Samuel Norman |
| 2014 | The Lego Movie | Vitruvius (voice) |
| 2014 | Transcendence | Joseph Tagger |
| 2014 | Dolphin Tale 2 | Dr. Cameron McCarthy |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | |
| 2014 | 5 Flights Up | Alex Carver |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Island of Lemurs: Madagascar | Narrator (voice) |
| 2014 | Wish Wizard | Maxwell Omni |
| 2014 | We the People | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Now You See Me | Thaddeus Bradley |
| 2013 | Oblivion | Beech |
| 2013 | Olympus Has Fallen | Alan Trumbull |
| 2013 | Last Vegas | Archibald 'Archie' Clayton |
| 2013 | The Fire Rises: The Creation and Impact of The Dark Knight Trilogy | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story | Self |
| 2013 | The Editor and The Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | JFK: A President Betrayed | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot | Self |
| 2012 | The Dark Knight Rises | Lucius Fox |
| 2012 | The Magic of Belle Isle | Monte Wildhorn |
| 2012 | Ending the Knight | Self |
| 2012 | B.B. King: The Life of Riley | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | Honest Trailers | Lucius Fox (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Le frontiere dell'Astronomia - EP-7 Vite aliene nel cosmo | Narratore |
| 2012 | Betty White's 90th Birthday: A Tribute to America's Golden Girl | Self |
| 2012 | Echoes 'Cross the Tracks | Self |
| 2011 | Conan the Barbarian | Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | Dolphin Tale | Dr. McCarthy |
| 2011 | Born to Be Wild | Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | Breaking the Taboo | Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | Curiosity | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | Clint Eastwood's West | Self |
| 2010 | RED | Joe Matheson |
| 2010 | Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) |
| 2010 | Through the Wormhole | Self - Host |
| 2010 | The Eastwood Factor | Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | The 16th Man | Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | The President's Photographer: Fifty Years Inside the Oval Office | Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots | Self (voice) |
| 2009 | Invictus | Nelson Mandela |
| 2009 | Thick as Thieves | Keith Ripley |
| 2009 | The Maiden Heist | Charles Peterson |
| 2009 | 30 for 30 | |
| 2009 | Prom Night in Mississippi | Narrator (voice) |
| 2009 | The Jay Leno Show | Self |
| 2009 | Live from Studio Five | Self |
| 2009 | The People Speak | Self |
| 2008 | The Dark Knight | Lucius Fox |
| 2008 | Wanted | Sloan |
| 2008 | A Raisin in the Sun | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) |
| 2008 | Where the Water Meets the Sky | |
| 2007 | Evan Almighty | God |
| 2007 | The Bucket List | Carter Chambers |
| 2007 | Gone Baby Gone | Jack Doyle |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self - Guest |
| 2007 | Feast of Love | Harry Stevenson |
| 2007 | AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition | Self |
| 2007 | All About Us | Self |
| 2006 | Lucky Number Slevin | The Boss |
| 2006 | The Contract | Frank Carden |
| 2006 | 10 Items or Less | 'Him' |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Self |
| 2006 | The Electric Company's Greatest Hits & Bits | Self |
| 2006 | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Jaques (segment "As You Like It") |
| 2005 | Batman Begins | Lucius Fox |
| 2005 | War of the Worlds | Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Unleashed | Sam |
| 2005 | March of the Penguins | Narrator (English voice) |
| 2005 | An Unfinished Life | Mitch Bradley |
| 2005 | Edison | Ashford |
| 2005 | The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson | Self |
| 2005 | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon | Neil Armstrong (voice) |
| 2005 | The Reichen Show | Self - Guest |
| 2005 | Slavery and the Making of America | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Blues Divas | Self |
| 2005 | A Concert for Hurricane Relief | Self |
| 2005 | Nos Bastidores de Hollywood | Self |
| 2004 | Million Dollar Baby | Eddie 'Scrap-Iron' Dupris |
| 2004 | The Big Bounce | Walter Crewes |
| 2004 | Genius. A Night for Ray Charles | Self |
| 2004 | The Hunting of the President | Narrator (voice) |
| 2004 | Survivors of the Shoah: Visual History Foundation | |
| 2004 | America Beyond the Color Line | Self |
| 2003 | Bruce Almighty | God |
| 2003 | Dreamcatcher | Col. Abraham Curtis |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2003 | Levity | Miles Evans |
| 2003 | Guilty by Association | Lt. Redding |
| 2003 | Declaration of Independence | Self |
| 2002 | The Sum of All Fears | DCI William Cabot |
| 2002 | High Crimes | Charlie Grimes |
| 2002 | Eastwood & Co.: Making 'Unforgiven' | Self |
| 2002 | All on Accounta Pullin' a Trigger | Self |
| 2002 | Partners of the Heart | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Along Came a Spider | Alex Cross |
| 2001 | Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature | Self |
| 2000 | Under Suspicion | Captain Victor Benezet |
| 2000 | Nurse Betty | Charlie |
| 2000 | Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows | Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | Stephen King: Shining in the Dark | Self |
| 1998 | Deep Impact | President Tom Beck |
| 1998 | Hard Rain | Jim |
| 1998 | Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist | Self |
| 1997 | Kiss the Girls | Alex Cross |
| 1997 | Amistad | Theodore Joadson |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1997 | The Long Way Home | Narrator (voice) |
| 1997 | The Chris Rock Show | |
| 1996 | Chain Reaction | Paul Shannon |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1996 | Moll Flanders | Hibble |
| 1996 | Cosmic Voyage | Narrator (voice) |
| 1996 | Inside the White House | Narrator (voice) |
| 1996 | Blacklist: Hollywood on Trial | Edward G. Robinson |
| 1995 | Se7en | Somerset |
| 1995 | Outbreak | General Billy Ford |
| 1994 | The Shawshank Redemption | Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1992 | Unforgiven | Ned Logan |
| 1992 | The Power of One | Geel Piet |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | |
| 1992 | HBO First Look | |
| 1992 | Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories | Narrator (Voice) |
| 1991 | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves | Azeem |
| 1991 | Pebble Mill | Self |
| 1991 | The True Story of Glory Continues | Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry | Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | Robin Hood: The Myth, the Man, the Movie | Self |
| 1990 | The Bonfire of the Vanities | Judge Leonard White |
| 1990 | The Civil War | Frederick Douglass |
| 1990 | The Earth Day Special | Walter Samson |
| 1990 | Night of 100 Stars III | Self |
| 1990 | Follow the Drinking Gourd | Narrator |
| 1989 | Glory | Sgt. Maj. John Rawlins |
| 1989 | Driving Miss Daisy | Hoke Colburn |
| 1989 | Lean On Me | Principal Joe Clark |
| 1989 | Johnny Handsome | Lt. A.Z. Drones |
| 1988 | Clean and Sober | Craig |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) |
| 1988 | Clinton and Nadine | Dorsey Pratt |
| 1987 | Street Smart | Leo "Fast Black" Smalls, Jr. |
| 1987 | Fight for Life | Dr. Sherard |
| 1986 | American Masters | Narrator (voice) |
| 1986 | Resting Place | Luther Johnson |
| 1985 | The Twilight Zone | Tony |
| 1985 | That Was Then... This Is Now | Charlie Woods |
| 1985 | Marie | Charles Traughber |
| 1985 | The Atlanta Child Murders | Ben Shelter |
| 1985 | The Execution of Raymond Graham | Warden Pratt |
| 1985 | The Gospel at Colonus | Messenger |
| 1984 | Teachers | Lewis |
| 1984 | Harry & Son | Siemanowski |
| 1981 | Eyewitness | Lieutenant Black |
| 1981 | Death of a Prophet | Malcolm X |
| 1981 | The Marva Collins Story | Clarence Collins |
| 1980 | Brubaker | Walter |
| 1980 | Attica | Hap Richards |
| 1979 | CBS News Sunday Morning | Self |
| 1979 | Hollow Image | Sweet Talk |
| 1978 | The Kennedy Center Honors | Self |
| 1978 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Uncle Hammer |
| 1978 | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | Uncle Hammer |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) |
| 1974 | Out to Lunch | Self / Croupier |
| 1974 | Spidey Super Stories | Easy Reader |
| 1974 | Spidey Super Stories | Count Dracula |
| 1974 | Spidey Super Stories | Police officer |
| 1974 | Spidey Super Stories | Umpire |
| 1973 | Blade | Chris |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Messenger |
| 1971 | The Electric Company | Count Dracula |
| 1971 | The Electric Company | Mad Scientist |
| 1971 | The Electric Company | Easy Reader |
| 1971 | Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! | Afro |
| 1970 | Caught in the Middle | |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes | Self |
| 1968 | Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Grand Central Commuter (uncredited) |
| 1968 | Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? | Grand Central Commuter |
| 1966 | A Man Called Adam | Party Guest (uncredited) |
| 1966 | Goldene Kamera Verleihung | Self |
| 1965 | The Pawnbroker | Man on Street (Uncredited) |
| 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Performer |
| 1953 | The Oscars | Self |
| 1952 | Today | Self |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Clarence |
| 1951 | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Luther |
