Acting
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'.
Filmography
Hollywood Black
Series · 2024
South to Black Power
Film · 2023
Loudmouth
Film · 2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
Film · 2022
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
Film · 2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
Film · 2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Film · 2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
Film · 2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
Film · 2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
Film · 2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
Film · 2021
September First, Twenty-Twenty
Film · 2021
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Series · 2021
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
Film · 2020
Bernie Blackout
Film · 2020
Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story
Film · 2020
Obama
Series · 2020
Stax, le label soul légendaire
Film · 2019
Chicago at the Crossroad
Film · 2019
The Road to Mass Incarceration
Film · 2018
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
Film · 2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
Film · 2018
I Am MLK Jr.
Film · 2018
Shut Up and Dribble
Series · 2018
Explained
Series · 2018
LA 92
Film · 2017
Velshi
Series · 2017
Crashing the Party
Film · 2016
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
Film · 2016
Fantastic Lies
Film · 2016
We Are Many
Film · 2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Film · 2013
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
Film · 2012
A Man's Story
Film · 2011
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
Film · 2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
Film · 2009
Michael Jackson Memorial
Film · 2009
Anecdotes about Fidel
Film · 2009
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
Film · 2009
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
Series · 2009
Ballou
Film · 2008
The Day the Troubles Began
Film · 2008
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
Film · 2007
Robins
Series · 2006
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
Series · 2005
Tanner on Tanner
Series · 2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Series · 2003
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Film · 2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
Film · 2002
Last Party 2000
Film · 2001
Democracy Now!
Series · 2001
University, Inc.
Film · 1999
The Subtext of a Yale Education
Film · 1999
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
Film · 1999
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
Film · 1997
4 Little Girls
Film · 1997
The Chris Rock Show
Series · 1997
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
Film · 1996
The Daily Show
Series · 1996
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
Series · 1995
The Soul of Stax
Film · 1994
Baseball
Series · 1994
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
Film · 1993
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
Film · 1992
Route One/USA
Film · 1989
Decade
Film · 1989
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
Film · 1988
Tanner '88
Series · 1988
A Different World
Series · 1987
In Remembrance of Martin
Film · 1986
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
Film · 1983
Not Necessarily the News
Series · 1983
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
Film · 1982
A Matter of Respect
Film · 1980
A Decade of Struggle
Film · 1980
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Saturday Night Live
Series · 1975
Dinah!
Series · 1974
Save the Children
Film · 1973
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
Film · 1973
Wattstax
Film · 1973
Nationtime: Gary
Film · 1972
We Are Universal
Film · 1971
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Film · 1970
Operation Breadbasket
Film · 1969
Uptight
Film · 1968
World in Action
Series · 1963
Dear Mister President
Film