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James Baldwin

Actor · 24 credits · 4 in highly-rated films

Best known for I Am Not Your Negro (2017)

Frequent collaborators: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X

Movies (23 total, ranked by score)

  1. I Am Not Your Negro

    2017 · ★ 7.7 (530 votes)

    Documentary

    1

  2. James Baldwin Abroad

    2023 · ★ 10.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary, History

    2

  3. Public Speaking

    2011 · ★ 7.0 (61 votes)

    Documentary

    3

  4. Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

    1971 · ★ 7.1 (41 votes)

    Documentary

    4

  5. Baldwin's Nigger

    1968 · ★ 6.6 (8 votes)

    Documentary

    5

  6. The New Yorker at 100

    2025 · ★ 6.9 (22 votes)

    Documentary

    6

  7. Sanctus House

    2026

    Horror

    7

  8. Take This Hammer

    1964 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    8

  9. i ran from it and was still in it

    2021 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    9

  10. I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    1982 · ★ 6.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary, History

    10

  11. James Baldwin: From Another Place

    1973 · ★ 6.5 (6 votes)

    Documentary

    11

  12. James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

    1962

    Documentary

    12

  13. Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley

    1965

    History, TV Movie

    13

  14. Off-White Tulips

    2013 · ★ 6.0 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    14

  15. James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    1989 · ★ 3.0 (4 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    15

  16. Target: St. Louis Vol. 1

    2018 · ★ 0.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    16

  17. Robert Penn Warren: A Vision

    2018

    Documentary

    17

  18. Vivie

    —

    Comedy, Drama, Fantasy

    18

  19. The James Baldwin Anthology

    2003

    Documentary

    19

  20. The Madding Crowd

    2017

    20

  21. A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else

    2014

    21

  22. The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre

    1978

    Documentary, History

    22

  23. The Negro and the American Promise

    1963

    TV Movie, Documentary

    23

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 29, 2026.