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Jesse Jackson

Actor · 49 credits · 9 in highly-rated films

Best known for LA 92 (2017)

Frequent collaborators: Martin Luther King Jr., Bill Clinton, Coretta Scott King, Isaac Hayes, William Bell

Movies (49 total, ranked by score)

  1. LA 92

    2017 · ★ 7.7 (136 votes)

    History, Documentary

    1

  2. Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip

    1982 · ★ 7.4 (97 votes)

    Comedy, Documentary

    2

  3. El otro Rey de Chicago

    2022

    Documentary

    3

  4. Nationtime: Gary

    1972 · ★ 8.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    4

  5. Wattstax

    1973 · ★ 7.0 (17 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    5

  6. I Am MLK Jr.

    2018 · ★ 8.8 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    6

  7. Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2

    1973 · ★ 9.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    7

  8. Fantastic Lies

    2016 · ★ 7.2 (19 votes)

    Documentary, History

    8

  9. A Man's Story

    2011 · ★ 6.9 (8 votes)

    Documentary

    9

  10. Route One/USA

    1989 · ★ 7.4 (11 votes)

    Documentary

    10

  11. Last Party 2000

    2001 · ★ 6.8 (12 votes)

    Documentary

    11

  12. We Are Many

    2014 · ★ 6.7 (15 votes)

    Documentary

    12

  13. Bernie Blackout

    2020 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    13

  14. University, Inc.

    1999

    Documentary

    14

  15. Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story

    2020

    Documentary

    15

  16. In Remembrance of Martin

    1986 · ★ 9.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    16

  17. The Journey of the African-American Athlete

    1996 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary, History, TV Movie

    17

  18. Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America

    2018

    Documentary

    18

  19. Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over

    2021 · ★ 6.5 (4 votes)

    Documentary, Music

    19

  20. King: Man of Peace in a Time of War

    2007 · ★ 8.5 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    20

  21. Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony

    2002 · ★ 6.5 (8 votes)

    Documentary

    21

  22. September First, Twenty-Twenty

    2021 · ★ 9.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    22

  23. MLK: The Assassination Tapes

    2012 · ★ 7.4 (5 votes)

    Documentary, History, Crime

    23

  24. Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

    2009 · ★ 6.8 (10 votes)

    Music, Documentary

    24

  25. Punch 9 for Harold Washington

    2021

    Documentary

    25

  26. BaadAsssss Cinema

    2002 · ★ 6.1 (22 votes)

    Action, Documentary

    26

  27. The Nine Lives of Marion Barry

    2009 · ★ 5.6 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    27

  28. Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy

    1983 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    28

  29. Loudmouth

    2022 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)

    Documentary

    29

  30. Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

    1997 · ★ 10.0 (1 votes)

    Documentary

    30

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