| Sepia Cinderella (1947) |
| No Way Out (1950) |
| Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) |
| Red Ball Express (1952) |
| Go Man Go (1954) |
| Blackboard Jungle (1955) |
| Good-bye, My Lady (1956) |
| Edge of the City (1957) |
| Something of Value (1957) |
| Band of Angels (1957) |
| The Mark of the Hawk (1957) |
| Virgin Island (1958) |
| The Defiant Ones (1958) |
| Porgy and Bess (1959) |
| All the Young Men (1960) |
| A Raisin in the Sun (1961) |
| Paris Blues (1961) |
| Pressure Point (1962) |
| The Long Ships (1963) |
| Lilies of the Field (1963) |
| The Bedford Incident (1965) |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) |
| A Patch of Blue (1965) |
| The Slender Thread (1965) |
| Duel at Diablo (1966) |
| To Sir, with Love (1967) |
| In the Heat of the Night (1967) |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) |
| For Love of Ivy (1968) |
| The Lost Man (1969) |
| They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970) |
| Brother John (1971) |
| The Organization (1971) |
| Buck and the Preacher (1972) |
| A Warm December (1973) |
| Uptown Saturday Night (1974) |
| The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) |
| Let's Do it Again (1975) |
| A Piece of the Action (1977) |
| Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979) |
| Shoot to Kill (1988) |
| Little Nikita (1988) |
| Sneakers (1992) |
| The Jackal (1997) |
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| AS DRIECTOR |
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Buck and the Preacher (1972) (Also uncredited as producer)
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A Warm December (1973)
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Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
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Let's Do it Again (1975)
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A Piece of the Action (1977)
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Stir Crazy (1980)
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Hanky Panky (1982)
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Fast Forward (1985)
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| Ghost Dad (1990) |
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| DOCUMENTARY APPEARANCES |
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| From Whence Cometh My Help (1949) |
| King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis (1970) (Narrator) |
| A Century of Cinema (1994) |
| Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick (1996) |
| Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey (2001) (Narrator) |
| Tell Them Who You Are (2004) |
| Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2008) |
| Sidney (2022) |
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