James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.

KNOWN FOR

The Dick Cavett Show
1968
American Playhouse
1985
World in Action
1965
Explained
2018
Malcolm X
1992
If Beale Street Could Talk
2018
Bobby Kennedy for President
2018
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
I Am Not Your Negro
2017
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020
The New Yorker at 100
2025
The Statue of Liberty
1985

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
34
Writing
10
2025
The New Yorker at 100
as Self (archive footage)
2023
James Baldwin Abroad
as Self
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Madonna: Madame X
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
i ran from it and was still in it
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2020
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
as Self
2018
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
Bobby Kennedy for President
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Explained
as Self (archive footage)
2017
The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
2017
I Am Not Your Negro
as Self (archive footage)
2014
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
as Self (archive footage)
2013
Off-White Tulips
as Self
2011
Public Speaking
as Self (archive footage)
2003
The James Baldwin Anthology
1989
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self (archive footage)
1985
The Statue of Liberty
as Self - Writer
1982
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1981
I Remember Harlem
as self
1978
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
as Himself
1975
Assignment America
1973
James Baldwin: From Another Place
as Self
1971
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
as Self
1971
SOUL!
1970
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
as Self (archive footage)
1968
Baldwin's Nigger
as Self
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1965
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
as Self
1965
World in Action
1964
Take This Hammer
as Self
1963
The Negro and the American Promise
1962
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
as Self