Jesse Jackson

Explore Jesse Jackson's movie filmography on ReelBot, including film credits, roles, release dates, ratings, and movie details.

Acting

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

• South to Black Power (2023)
• Loudmouth (2022)
• El otro Rey de Chicago (2022)
• Punch 9 for Harold Washington (2021)
• Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over (2021)
• Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
• September First, Twenty-Twenty (2021)
• Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story (2021)
• Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)
• Killing Martin Luther King Jr. (2021)
• Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy (2021)
• Bernie Blackout (2020)
• Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story (2020)
• Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story (2020)
• Stax, le label soul légendaire (2019)
• Chicago at the Crossroad (2019)
• The Road to Mass Incarceration (2018)
• Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America (2018)
• I Am MLK Jr. (2018)
• Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media (2018)
• LA 92 (2017)
• '85: The Greatest Team in Football History (2016)
• Crashing the Party (2016)
• Fantastic Lies (2016)
• We Are Many (2014)
• Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic (2013)
• MLK: The Assassination Tapes (2012)
• A Man's Story (2011)
• Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound (2009)
• Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009)
• Michael Jackson Memorial (2009)
• The Nine Lives of Marion Barry (2009)
• Anecdotes about Fidel (2009)
• The Day the Troubles Began (2008)
• Ballou (2008)
• King: Man of Peace in a Time of War (2007)
• Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2002)
• BaadAsssss Cinema (2002)
• Last Party 2000 (2001)
• Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special (1999)
• The Subtext of a Yale Education (1999)
• University, Inc. (1999)
• 4 Little Girls (1997)
• Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory (1997)
• The Journey of the African-American Athlete (1996)
• The Soul of Stax (1994)
• Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham (1993)
• America's Political Parties: Power and Principle (1992)
• Decade (1989)
• Route One/USA (1989)
• Jackie Robinson: An American Journey (1988)
• In Remembrance of Martin (1986)
• Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy (1983)
• Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982)
• A Decade of Struggle (1980)
• A Matter of Respect (1980)
• Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2 (1973)
• Save the Children (1973)
• Wattstax (1973)
• Nationtime: Gary (1972)
• We Are Universal (1971)
• King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
• Operation Breadbasket (1969)
• Uptight (1968)
• Dear Mister President