Acting
Al Sharpton
Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. (born October 3, 1954) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, television/radio talk show host and a former White House adviser for President Barack Obama. In 2004, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. presidential election. He hosts his own radio talk show, Keepin' It Real, and he makes regular guest appearances cable news television. In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation, a nightly talk show. In 2015, the program was shifted to Sunday mornings. Sharpton's supporters praise "his ability and willingness to defy the power structure that is seen as the cause of their suffering" and consider him "a man who is willing to tell it like it is". Former Mayor of New York City Ed Koch, a one-time foe, said that Sharpton deserves the respect he enjoys among black Americans: "He is willing to go to jail for them, and he is there when they need him." President Barack Obama said that Sharpton is "the voice of the voiceless and a champion for the downtrodden." A 2013 Zogby Analytics poll found that one quarter of African Americans said that Sharpton speaks for them. His critics describe him as "a political radical who is to blame, in part, for the deterioration of race relations". Sociologist Orlando Patterson has referred to him as a racial arsonist, while liberal columnist Derrick Z. Jackson has called him the black equivalent of Richard Nixon and Pat Buchanan. Sharpton sees much of the criticism as a sign of his effectiveness. "In many ways, what they consider criticism is complimenting my job," he said. "An activist's job is to make public civil rights issues until there can be a climate for change." (Wikipedia)
Filmography
Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid
Film · 2024
Atrocity Inc.
Film · 2024
"Get the Jew": The Crown Heights Riot Revisited (WSJ Opinion Documentary)
Film · 2024
James Brown: Say It Loud
Series · 2024
When Truth Isn't Truth: The Rudy Giuliani Story
Film · 2023
South to Black Power
Film · 2023
Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World
Series · 2023
Behind the Shield: The Power and Politics of the NFL
Film · 2022
Rudy! A Documusical
Film · 2022
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM
Film · 2022
Loudmouth
Film · 2022
Sherri
Series · 2022
JANET JACKSON.
Series · 2022
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Film · 2021
The First Wave
Film · 2021
Tuskegee Airmen: Legacy of Courage
Film · 2021
Woman in Motion
Film · 2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Film · 2021
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Series · 2021
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn
Film · 2020
American Trial: The Eric Garner Story
Film · 2020
Saving OurSelves: BET COVID-19 Relief Effort
Film · 2020
By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem
Series · 2020
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
Series · 2020
The Joy Reid Show
Series · 2020
The Black Godfather
Film · 2019
Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes
Film · 2018
Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
Film · 2018
Satan & Adam
Film · 2018
I Am MLK Jr.
Film · 2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Film · 2018
Prince: the Last Year of a Legend
Film · 2018
United We Stand: The Ali Summit
Film · 2018
Basketball: A Love Story
Series · 2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Series · 2018
Maynard
Film · 2017
Get Me Roger Stone
Film · 2017
Time: The Kalief Browder Story
Series · 2017
A Tale of James Brown
Film · 2016
Star
Series · 2016
Brave Spaces: Perspectives on Faith and LGBT Justice
Film · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
Empire
Series · 2015
91 Bullets in a Minute
Film · 2014
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
Film · 2014
James Brown - The Man, The Music & The Message
Film · 2014
Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie
Film · 2013
Koch
Film · 2013
The Central Park Five
Film · 2012
Steve Harvey
Series · 2012
On the Shoulders of Giants
Film · 2011
Looking for Lenny
Film · 2011
The After Party: The Last Party 3
Film · 2011
Beating Justice: The Martin Lee Anderson Story
Film · 2011
PoliticsNation
Series · 2011
One Night in Vegas
Film · 2010
Michael Jackson: The Inside Story - What Killed the King of Pop?
Film · 2010
Race
Film · 2010
America: The Story of Us
Series · 2010
Good Hair
Film · 2009
Shooting Star(s): The Rise of Hip Hop Photographer Johnny Nunez
Film · 2009
Madea Goes to Jail
Film · 2009
If I Die Tonight
Film · 2009
Moonwalking: The True Story of Michael Jackson - Uncensored
Film · 2009
Abraham Obama
Film · 2009
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Series · 2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Series · 2009
The Black List: Volume One
Film · 2008
James Brown - The Night James Brown Saved Boston
Film · 2008
Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary
Film · 2008
Murder in Black & White
Series · 2008
The Jena 6
Film · 2007
Out From Ali's Shadow: The Larry Holmes Story
Film · 2006
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Series · 2006
Street Fight
Film · 2005
Pursuit of Equality
Film · 2005
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Film · 2005
The Colbert Report
Series · 2005
Celsius 41.11
Film · 2004
Rescue Me
Series · 2004
Boston Legal
Series · 2004
I Hate My Job
Series · 2004
Tanner on Tanner
Series · 2004
James Brown: Soul Survivor
Film · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
Anderson Cooper 360°
Series · 2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Series · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
Mr. Deeds
Film · 2002
My Wife and Kids
Series · 2001
Bamboozled
Film · 2000
Let's Talk
Film · 2000
Girlfriends
Series · 2000
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Film · 1999
Cold Feet
Film · 1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Series · 1999
The Chris Rock Show
Series · 1997
The Chris Rock Show
Series · 1997
The Daily Show
Series · 1996
MS NOW Reports
Series · 1996
Fox News Sunday
Series · 1996
Run For Cover
Film · 1995
New York Undercover
Series · 1994
The Last Party
Film · 1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Series · 1993
Raw
Series · 1993
Malcolm X
Film · 1992
Seven Days in Bensonhurst
Film · 1990
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Meet the Press
Series · 1947