| — | Caught Stealing | |
| — | The Guns of Christmas Past | Ebb |
| 2024 | The Perfect Couple | Tag Winbury |
| 2024 | Violent Earth | Self - Host |
| 2023 | Asteroid City | J.J. Kellogg |
| 2023 | Golda | Henry Kissinger |
| 2023 | A Small Light | Otto Frank |
| 2023 | Across the River and Into the Trees | Colonel Richard Cantwell |
| 2023 | Tribute to Chuck Wepner: The Legacy and Retirement of the Real Rocky Balboa | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Meeting Zelenskyy | Self |
| 2023 | Command Z | Kohlberg Pryce |
| 2022 | Ray Donovan: Film | Ray Donovan |
| 2022 | The Conspiracy | |
| 2021 | Ära vaata üles | Bash Narrator (voice) |
| 2021 | The French Dispatch | Talk Show Host |
| 2021 | Hard Knocks: In Season | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2021 | Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | Self |
| 2020 | Human Capital | Drew Hagel |
| 2019 | A Rainy Day in New York | Roland Pollard |
| 2019 | The Many Lives of Nick Buoniconti | Narrator |
| 2019 | Lindsey Vonn: The Final Season | Narrator (voice) |
| 2019 | Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People | Joseph Pulitzer (voice) |
| 2018 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse | Wilson Fisk (voice) |
| 2018 | Koerte saar | Spots (voice) |
| 2018 | Inside the Manson Cult: The Lost Tapes | Narrator |
| 2018 | Civilisations | Narrator |
| 2018 | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover | Self |
| 2017 | My Little Pony: The Movie | The Storm King (voice) |
| 2017 | Goon: Last of the Enforcers | Ross Rhea |
| 2017 | Chuck | Chuck Wepner |
| 2017 | America in Color | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | The Pulitzer At 100 | Self |
| 2017 | UConn: The March to Madness | |
| 2016 | The 5th Wave | Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vosch |
| 2015 | Spotlight | Marty Baron |
| 2015 | Creed | HBO 24/7 Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Pawn Sacrifice | Boris Spassky |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self |
| 2015 | Unity | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Kareem: Minority of One | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Finding Babel | Isaac Babel (voice) |
| 2014 | BoJack Horseman | Copernicus (Voice) |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | |
| 2014 | Clear History | Tibor (uncredited) |
| 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self |
| 2014 | Variety Studio: Actors on Actors | Self |
| 2013 | Rick and Morty | Fear Hole Demon (voice) |
| 2013 | The Butler | Lyndon B. Johnson |
| 2013 | Movie 43 | Robert (segment "Homeschooled") |
| 2013 | The Last Days on Mars | Vincent Campbell |
| 2013 | Ray Donovan | Ray Donovan |
| 2013 | Fading Gigolo | Dovi |
| 2013 | The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Bobby Lincoln |
| 2013 | Drunk History | Victor Lustig |
| 2013 | A Perfect Man | James |
| 2013 | Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | Goon | Ross Rhea |
| 2012 | Mental | Trevor Blundell |
| 2012 | Space Dive | Himself - Narrator (US version) |
| 2012 | Human Lampshade: A Holocaust Mystery | |
| 2011 | Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective | Self |
| 2011 | Runnin' Rebels of UNLV | Narrator |
| 2011 | McEnroe/Borg: Fire & Ice | Narrator |
| 2011 | Portraits in Dramatic Time | |
| 2011 | The Curious Case of Curt Flood | Narrator |
| 2011 | The Lost Kennedy Home Movies | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Salt | Theodore Winter |
| 2010 | Repomehed | Frank |
| 2010 | Every Day | Ned |
| 2010 | Magic & Bird: A Courtship of Rivals | Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | America: The Story of Us | Himself - Narrator |
| 2010 | America: The Story of Us | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2010 | Broad Street Bullies | (narrator) |
| 2010 | 24/7: Road to the NHL Winter Classic | Narrator |
| 2010 | Road to the Winter Classic | Narrator |
| 2009 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Victor Creed |
| 2009 | Taking Woodstock | Wilma |
| 2009 | Weapon X Mutant Files | Self |
| 2009 | Wolverine Unleashed: The Complete Origins | Self |
| 2009 | Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times | Narrator |
| 2009 | Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs. Carolina | Narrator |
| 2009 | Ted Williams | Narrator |
| 2008 | Defiance | Zus Bielski |
| 2008 | Chicago 10 | William Kunstler (voice) |
| 2008 | Thrilla in Manila | Narrator |
| 2008 | Operation Filmmaker | Himself |
| 2008 | Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed | Narrator |
| 2008 | Breaking the Huddle: The Integration of College Football | Narrator |
| 2008 | Back Nine at Cherry Hills: The Legends of the 1960 U.S. Open | Host |
| 2008 | The Defector | Narrator |
| 2008 | Barbaro | Narrator |
| 2008 | The Jewish Americans | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | Love in the Time of Cholera | Lotario Thurgot |
| 2007 | The Ten | Ray Johnson |
| 2007 | Michigan vs. Ohio State: The Rivalry | Narrator |
| 2007 | Brooklyn Dodgers: The Ghosts of Flatbush | Self (Narrator) |
| 2007 | 24/7 | |
| 2007 | The Living Weapon | |
| 2007 | Dare To Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women's Soccer Team | Narrator |
| 2006 | The Painted Veil | Charlie Townsend |
| 2006 | The Omen | Robert Thorn |
| 2006 | The New Medicine | Narrator |
| 2005 | Robot Chicken | Iron Man / King Triton (Voice) |
| 2005 | Lackawanna Blues | Ulysses Ford |
| 2005 | Living with Wolves | narrator |
| 2005 | Oil Storm | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Perfect Upset: The 1985 Villanova vs. Georgetown NCAA Championship | Narrator |
| 2004 | The Manchurian Candidate | Congressman Raymond Prentiss Shaw (D-NY) |
| 2003 | Hitler: The Rise of Evil | Ernst Hanfstaengl |
| 2003 | Spinning Boris | Joe Shumate |
| 2003 | Colosseum - Rome's Arena of Death | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Rebels of Oakland: The A's, The Raiders, The '70s | Self |
| 2003 | The Shakespeare Sessions | |
| 2003 | Battle of the X-Planes | Narrator |
| 2002 | Kõigi hirmude summa | John Clark |
| 2002 | Raw Iron: The Making of 'Pumping Iron' | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Do You Believe in Miracles? The Story of the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team | Self - Narrator |
| 2002 | Iron and Beyond | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Young Dr. Freud | Sigmund Freud (Voice) |
| 2002 | :03 from Gold | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | A Brilliant Madness | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | Ulysses S. Grant | Narrator |
| 2002 | American Experience: Ulysses S. Grant (Part 2) | Narrator |
| 2001 | Kate & Leopold | Stuart Besser |
| 2001 | Hard Knocks | Narrator |
| 2001 | Shot Heard 'Round the World | Narrator |
| 2001 | Fatal Flood | Narrator (voice) |
| 2000 | Scream 3 | Cotton Weary |
| 2000 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Michael Keppler |
| 2000 | Hamlet | Laertes |
| 2000 | RKO 281 | Orson Welles |
| 2000 | Secrets of the Dead | Narrator |
| 2000 | Spring Forward | Paul |
| 2000 | Ali-Frazier I: One Nation... Divisible | Narrator |
| 1999 | The Hurricane | Sam Chaiton |
| 1999 | Jakob the Liar | Mischa |
| 1999 | A Walk on the Moon | Marty Kantrowitz |
| 1999 | Desert Blue | Mickey Moonday (voice) |
| 1999 | Fists of Freedom: The Story of the '68 Summer Games | Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | Meltdown at Three Mile Island | Self - Narrator |
| 1999 | Decoding Nazi Secrets | Himself - Narrator |
| 1999 | The Viking Saga - The Era of The Long Ships | Narrator |
| 1998 | Sphere | Dr. Ted Fielding |
| 1998 | Phantoms | Deputy Stuart 'Stu' Wargle |
| 1998 | Twilight | Jeff Willis |
| 1998 | Since You've Been Gone | Fred Linderhoff |
| 1998 | Babe Ruth | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| 1998 | City Dump: The Story of the 1951 CCNY Basketball Scandal | Himself-Narrator |
| 1998 | Surviving the Dust Bowl | Narrator (voice) |
| 1998 | Mr. Miami Beach | Narrator |
| 1997 | Scream 2 | Cotton Weary |
| 1997 | The View | Self |
| 1997 | The Daytrippers | Carl Petrovic |
| 1997 | His and Hers | Glenn |
| 1997 | Sports on the Silver Screen | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1997 | Baggage | |
| 1996 | Scream | Cotton Weary |
| 1996 | Ransom | Clark Barnes |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self |
| 1996 | The Daily Show | Self, Bank Manager |
| 1996 | Big Night | Leo |
| 1996 | Walking and Talking | Andrew |
| 1996 | The Sunshine Boys | Ricky Gregg |
| 1996 | Spirit of the Games | Narrator |
| 1995 | Mad Love | Salesman |
| 1995 | Party Girl | Nigel |
| 1995 | Denise Calls Up | Jerry Heckerman |
| 1995 | Buffalo Girls | Ogden |
| 1995 | Two Billion Hearts | Narrator |
| 1994 | Mixed Nuts | Chris |
| 1994 | Janek: The Silent Betrayal | Owens |
| 1993 | Late Night with Conan O'Brien | Self - Guest |
| 1992 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | |
| 1989 | Simpsonid | "Dateline: Springfield" Narrator (voice) |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) |
| 1982 | Nature | Narrator (voice) |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Host |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) |
| 1974 | NOVA | |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator (voice) |
