| 2024 | Escape from Extinction Rewilding | Narrator |
| 2024 | Corridors of Power: Should America Police the World? | Self - Narrator |
| 2023 | Extrapolations | Eve |
| 2022 | L'Amérique face à l'Holocauste | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 2021 | Don't Look Up : Déni cosmique | President Orlean |
| 2021 | Only Murders in the Building | Loretta Durkin |
| 2021 | Hemingway | Martha Gellhorn (voice) |
| 2021 | Станиславский. Жажда жизни | Self |
| 2021 | Dear Elizabeth | Elizabeth Bishop |
| 2021 | Clint Eastwood: A Cinematic Legacy | Self |
| 2020 | The Prom | Dee Dee Allen |
| 2020 | La Grande Traversée | Alice Hughes |
| 2020 | Nous sommes là : notes concernant la vie sur la planète Terre | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover | Meryl Streep |
| 2020 | Take Me to the World: A Sondheim 90th Birthday Celebration | Self - Performer |
| 2020 | Meryl Streep : mystères et métamorphoses | Self - Actress (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Les Filles du docteur March | Aunt March |
| 2019 | The Laundromat : L'affaire des Panama Papers | Ellen Martin / Elena |
| 2019 | The Kelly Clarkson Show | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Tout peut changer, Et si les femmes comptaient à Hollywood ? | Self |
| 2019 | Alan Pakula: Going for Truth | Self |
| 2019 | Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Museum Town | Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Mamma Mia ! Here We Go Again | Donna Sheridan-Carmichael |
| 2018 | Le Retour de Mary Poppins | Cousin Topsy |
| 2018 | Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | Every Act of Life | Maurine McElroy (voice) |
| 2018 | Paul McCartney : Live at Grand Central Station | Self (Cameo) |
| 2018 | We Will Rise: Michelle Obama's Mission to Educate Girls Around the World | Self |
| 2018 | Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Pentagon Papers | Kay Graham |
| 2017 | Big Little Lies | Mary Louise Wright |
| 2017 | Cinq hommes et une guerre | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Cinq hommes et une guerre | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | The Words That Built America | Self - Reader - Declaration of Independence |
| 2017 | 100 Years | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | The Female Lead - A Selection of Portraits | Self |
| 2016 | Florence Foster Jenkins | Florence Foster Jenkins |
| 2016 | Mike Nichols: An American Master | Self |
| 2016 | Starring Austin Pendleton | Self |
| 2016 | Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray | Elizabeth Murray (voice) |
| 2015 | Les Suffragettes | Emmeline Pankhurst |
| 2015 | Ricki and the Flash | Ricki Rendazzo |
| 2015 | The Late Late Show with James Corden | Self |
| 2015 | Everything Is Copy | Self |
| 2015 | Auschwitz | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Shout Gladi Gladi | Narrator (voice) |
| 2015 | Emotional Uncertainties | Self |
| 2014 | The Giver - Le Passeur | Chief Elder |
| 2014 | Into the Woods : Promenons-nous dans les bois | Witch |
| 2014 | The Homesman | Altha Carter |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Les Roosevelt, une histoire intime | Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) |
| 2014 | The Concert for Valor | Self |
| 2013 | Un été à Osage County | Violet Weston |
| 2013 | Fille montante | Narrator - Ethiopia (voice) |
| 2013 | Eastwood Directs: The Untold Story | Self |
| 2013 | A Fierce Green Fire | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Out of Print | Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Makers: Women Who Make America | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | Tous les espoirs sont permis | Kay |
| 2012 | Final Cut : Ladies And Gentlemen | (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Arctique | Narrator (voice) |
| 2012 | Radioman | Self |
| 2012 | Joe Papp in Five Acts | Self |
| 2012 | Close Up | Self (archive footage) |
| 2011 | La Dame de fer | Margaret Thatcher |
| 2011 | Pollen | Narrator (voice) |
| 2011 | Web Therapy | Camilla Bowner |
| 2010 | Histoire de l'Amérique | Self |
| 2010 | Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life | Jennie |
| 2010 | Sky Island | (voice) |
| 2009 | Fantastic Mr. Fox | Felicity Fox (voice) |
| 2009 | Julie & Julia | Julia Child |
| 2009 | Pas si simple | Jane Adler |
| 2009 | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | Self |
| 2009 | Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen | Self - Guest |
| 2009 | Secret Ingredients: Creating Julie & Julia | Self |
| 2009 | Doubt: Stage to Screen | Self |
| 2008 | Mamma Mia! | Donna Sheridan |
| 2008 | Doute | Sister Aloysius Beauvier |
| 2008 | Dark Matter | Joanna Silver |
| 2008 | Theater of War | Self |
| 2008 | An Old Fashioned Love Story: Making 'The Bridges of Madison County' | Self |
| 2008 | Ribbon of Sand | Narrator (voice) |
| 2008 | Birthing Mamma Mia! | Self |
| 2007 | Lions et agneaux | Janine Roth |
| 2007 | Détention secrète | Corrine Whitman |
| 2007 | The Graham Norton Show | Self |
| 2007 | Le temps d'un été | Lila Ross |
| 2006 | Le diable s'habille en Prada | Miranda Priestly |
| 2006 | Lucas, fourmi malgré lui | Queen (voice) |
| 2006 | The Last Show | Yolanda Johnson |
| 2006 | Hurricane on the Bayou | Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | The Music of Regret | The Woman |
| 2006 | Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner | Self |
| 2005 | Petites Confidences (à ma psy) | Lisa Metzger |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report | |
| 2005 | Unscripted | Self |
| 2005 | Stolen Childhoods | Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Karen Blixen - En Fantastisk Skæbne | Self - Host |
| 2004 | Les Désastreuses Aventures des Orphelins Baudelaire | Josephine Anwhistle |
| 2004 | Un crime dans la tête | Senator Eleanor Prentiss Shaw (D-VA) |
| 2004 | Stuck Together: Bringing Stuck on You to the Screen | Self |
| 2003 | Deux en un | Meryl Streep (uncredited) |
| 2003 | Angels in America | Hannah Pitt |
| 2003 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | Self |
| 2002 | Adaptation. | Susan Orlean |
| 2002 | The Hours | Clarissa Vaughan |
| 2002 | There's Only One Paul McCartney | Self |
| 2002 | New York at the Movies | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | A.I. Intelligence artificielle | Blue Mecha (voice) |
| 2001 | Finding the Truth: The Making of 'Kramer vs. Kramer' | Self |
| 2001 | Vermeer Master of Light | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | School: The Story of American Public Education | Narrator (voice) |
| 2000 | A Song of Africa | Self |
| 1999 | La Musique de mon cœur | Roberta |
| 1999 | From Star Wars to Star Wars: The Story of Industrial Light & Magic | Self |
| 1999 | Ginevra's Story: Solving the Mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci's First Known Portrait | Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | Chrysanthemum | Narrator (voice) |
| 1998 | Contre-jour | Kate Gulden |
| 1998 | Dancing at Lughnasa | Kate Mundy |
| 1998 | Vivement dimanche | Self |
| 1997 | Les Rois du Texas | Aunt Esme Dauterive (voice) |
| 1997 | La Vue | Self |
| 1997 | Au risque de te perdre | Lori Reimuller |
| 1997 | Leute heute | Self |
| 1996 | Simples Secrets | Lee Wakefield Lacker |
| 1996 | Le Daily Show | Self |
| 1996 | Le poids du déshonneur | Dr. Carolyn Ryan |
| 1995 | Sur la route de Madison | Francesca Johnson |
| 1995 | The Living Sea | Narrator (voice) |
| 1994 | La Rivière sauvage | Gail Hartman |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self |
| 1994 | An Introduction to the Ketogenic Diet | Self - Host |
| 1993 | La Maison aux Esprits | Clara del Valle Trueba |
| 1993 | GMTV | Self |
| 1992 | La mort vous va si bien | Madeline Ashton Menville |
| 1991 | Rendez-vous au Paradis | Julia |
| 1991 | Age 7 in America | Narrator (voice) |
| 1991 | Voices That Care | Self - Choir Member |
| 1990 | Bons baisers d'Hollywood | Suzanne Vale |
| 1990 | The Earth Day Special | Concerned Citizen |
| 1989 | Les Simpson | Jessica Lovejoy (voice) |
| 1989 | She-Devil, la diable | Mary Fisher |
| 1988 | Un cri dans la nuit | Lindy Chamberlain |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | Self - Guest |
| 1988 | This Morning | Self - Guest |
| 1987 | Ironweed : La force du destin | Helen Archer |
| 1986 | La brûlure | Rachel |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Karen Christence Dinesen Blixen |
| 1985 | Plenty | Susan Traherne |
| 1984 | Falling in Love | Molly Gilmore |
| 1984 | Little Ears: The Velveteen Rabbit | Narrator (voice) |
| 1983 | Le mystère Silkwood | Karen Silkwood |
| 1982 | Le choix de Sophie | Zofia "Sophie" Zawistowski |
| 1982 | La Mort aux enchères | Brooke Reynolds |
| 1982 | Alice at the Palace | Alice |
| 1981 | La maîtresse du lieutenant français | Sarah / Anna |
| 1981 | Kiss Me, Petruchio | Katherine |
| 1979 | Manhattan | Jill |
| 1979 | Kramer contre Kramer | Joanna Kramer |
| 1979 | La Vie Privée d'un Sénateur | Karen Traynor |
| 1979 | Uncommon Women and Others | Leilah |
| 1978 | Voyage au bout de l’enfer | Linda |
| 1978 | Holocauste | Inga Helms Weiss |
| 1977 | Julia | Anne Marie |
| 1977 | The Deadliest Season | Sharon Miller |
| 1977 | Secret Service | Edith Varney |
| 1975 | Everybody Rides the Carousel | Stage 6 (voice) |
| 1974 | Spécial cinéma | Self |
| 1971 | Great Performances | |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Leilah |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self - Host |
| 1968 | 60 Minutes | Self |
| 1967 | Titel, Thesen, Temperamente | Self |
| 1966 | Goldene Kamera Verleihung | Self |
| 1959 | The Grammy Awards | Self |
| 1953 | Cérémonie des Oscars | Self |
