Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president. Obama served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.

Filmography

• 2026From Hope to Home: The Obama Presidential Center
• Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An Almost History of America — Barack Obama, Executive Producer
• The Altruists — Executive Producer
• Στο Χιλιοστό
• Court of Gold — Self, Executive Producer
• 2025The Eyes of Ghana — Executive Producer
• Bodkin — Executive Producer
• Our Oceans — Self - Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• Starting 5 — Executive Producer
• 2024The Turnaround — Executive Producer
• 2023American Symphony — Executive Producer
• 2023Leave the World Behind — Executive Producer
• 2023Rustin — Executive Producer
• Working: What We Do All Day — Self - Narrator, Executive Producer
• Our Great National Parks — Self - Narrator (voice), Executive Producer
• 2022The Pledgefather — MAGA Supporter
• 20218 Presidentes 1 Juramento: A História de um Tempo Presente
• Ada Twist, Scientist — Executive Producer
• Waffles + Mochi — Executive Producer
• We the People — Executive Producer
• 2020Becoming — Self, Producer
• 2020Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution — Executive Producer
• 2020FACE OF FIRE — (voice)
• 2020Flint
• 2019Revealing Ukraine
• Obama's farewell address
• Secret Service Secrets — Barack Obama
• 2011Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World
• ITV Exposure
• 2008A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film
• 2007Senator Obama Goes to Africa
• Dispatches
• Baldwin: A Love Story — Executive Producer
• Exit West — Producer
• Journey — Executive Producer
• The Tiger Slam — Producer
• Variation — Producer

Appearances as themselves (360)

• 2026A-Bomb Museum — himself (footage)
• 2026Das Erbe von 9/11 – Deutschland nach den Anschlägen — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2026David Attenborough's 100 Years on Planet Earth — Self (archive footage)
• 2026Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs. That's the Weight of the World) — Self
• 2026FULL DISCLOSURE: THE REALITY BEHIND SPIELBERG'S DISCLOSURE DAY — Himself (Archival)
• 2026Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special — Self (archive footage)
• 2026Hope Comes Home: Inside the Obama Presidential Center — Self
• 2026In Tania's Head — Self (archive footage)
• 2026Iran, Israel and the Bomb — Self (archive footage)
• 2026Queen Elizabeth II: Her Story, Our Century — Self
• 2026Remaking the Middle East: Israel vs. Iran — Self
• 2026Spartamerika — Self (archive footage)
• 2026Trump's America: Power, Change, Resistance — Self (archive footage)
• 2026Turning Point: Generation 9/11 — Self (archive footage)
• Willem-Alexander & Máxima — Self (archive footage)
• 2025A House of Dynamite — Self (archive photo)
• American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden — Self - 44th President of the United States (archive footage)
• 2025Boo-Yah: A Portrait of Stuart Scott — Self
• RTL Tonight — Self
• 2025Rebel with a Bow Tie — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2025Sally — Self (archive footage)
• 2025The Twister: Caught in the Storm — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Biden's Decision — Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood Black — Self (archive footage)
• 2024It Musk Be Love: Trump & Elon — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Lula — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Mrs Robinson — Self (archive footage)
• 2024People Like Us: The Centre of Family Love Story — Self
• 2024The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Untold: Hope Solo vs. U.S. Soccer — Self (archive footage)
• 2024Wise Guys 2 — Self (archive footage)
• Bill Russell: Legend — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Commitment to Life — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Kenyatta: Do Not Wait Your Turn — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Origin — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Putin and the Presidents — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Sara Mardini - Gegen den Strom — Self (archive footage)
• 2023The Dividers — Self (archive footage)
• 2023The Great Escaper — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2023The Great Heisman Race of 1997 — Self (archive footage)
• Three Wars — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Tom Hanks: The Nomad — Self (archive footage)
• UFOs: Investigating the Unknown — Self (archive footage)
• A History of Antisemitism — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• Abraham Lincoln — Self (Commentary)
• 2022Angela Merkel - Im Lauf der Zeit — Self (archive footage)
• 2022F@ck This Job — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Gabby Giffords Won't Back Down — Self
• 2022How (not) to Build a School in Haiti — Self
• 2022Loudmouth — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2022Never Stop Dreaming: The Life and Legacy of Shimon Peres — Self
• 2022Oyate — Self
• 2022Pelosi's Power — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Picturing the Obamas — Self
• The G Word with Adam Conover — Self
• They Call Me Magic — Self
• 2022To Kill a Mockingbird: All Points of View — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2022Two Men at War — Self (archive footage)
• 20212021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self
• 2021Black Renaissance: The Art and Soul of Our Stories — Self
• 2021Celebrating America — Self
• 2021Dear Earth — Self
• 2021Grocery Store, Circa 2008 — Self
• How to Become a Tyrant — Self (archive footage)
• Money, Explained — Self (archive footage)
• Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union — Self
• 2021Revealed The hunt for Bin Laden — Self
• 2021Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden — Self
• 2021Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Roll Up Your Sleeves — Self
• Spycraft — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The Forever Prisoner — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress — Self (archive footage)
• 2021The Queen Carries On: A Gayle King Special — Self
• Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror — Self (archive footage)
• UFO — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Aboard Air Force One — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos — Self (archive footage)
• America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump — Self - Former President (archive footage)
• 2020American Trial: The Eric Garner Story — Self
• 2020Black Box Syria: The Dirty War — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2020Dear Class of 2020 — Self
• 2020Democracy for $ale — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• First Ladies — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Frenemies: Putin and Trump — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2020Graduate Together: America Honors the High School Class of 2020 — Self - Commencement Speaker
• Hillary — Self
• History 101 — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Illuminati — Self (archive footage)
• 2020John Lewis: Good Trouble — Self (archive Footage)
• 2020Korea, A Hundred Years of War — Self (archive footage)
• Ku Klux Klan: An American Story — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2020LeBron James: King of the Court — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2020Nicotine - A Drug with a Future — Self (archive footage)
• Obama — Self
• 2020Obama: Building the Dream — Self
• 2020President in Waiting — Self
• 2020The Accidental President — Self
• 2020The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden — Self (archive footage)
• The Last Dance — Self
• The Oprah Conversation — Self
• 2020The Phenomenon — Self (archive footage)
• 2020The Plot Against the President — Self (archive footage)
• 2020The Way I See It — Self (archive footage)
• We Are Who We Are — Self (archive footage)
• Whose Vote Counts, Explained — Self (archive footage)
• 2019American Dharma — Self (archive footage)
• 2019American Factory: A Conversation with the Obamas — Self
• 2019Atomic: History Of The A-Bomb — self (archive footage)
• BookTube — Self
• Desus & Mero — Self - Illustrious Guest
• 2019Fantastic Mr. Murray — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Korea: The Never-Ending War — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Laboratory Greece — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Mussolini's Sister — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Salman Rushdie: Death on a Trail — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2019Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue — Self (archive footage)
• 2019The Black Godfather — Self
• 2019The Edge of Democracy — Self (archive footage)
• 2019The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley — Self (archive footage)
• 2019The Price of Protest — Self (archive footage)
• 2019The River and the Wall — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am — Self (archive footage)
• 2019XY Chelsea — Self (archive footage)
• 2018A Greater Society — Self (archive footage)
• Basketball: A Love Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Belarus: An Ordinary Dictatorship — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Dirty Money — Self (archive footage)
• Explained — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Fahrenheit 11/9 — Self
• 2018Fail State — Self (archive footage)
• 2018How to Kill 14 People Without Saying a Word — Self (archive footage)
• 2018John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls — Self (archive footage)
• 2018King Bibi — Self (archive footage)
• Medal of Honor — Self (archive footage) (as President Barack Obama)
• My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman — Self
• 2018On Day Eight — Self (archive footage)
• 2018On Her Shoulders — Self
• 2018Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis — Self
• 2018Pope Francis: A Man of His Word — Self - Former President (uncredited)
• 2018RBG — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Reversing Roe — Self (archive footage)
• Shut Up and Dribble — Self (archive footage)
• The 2000s — Self (archive footage)
• 2018The Corporate Coup D'État — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2018The Final Year — Self
• 2018The Road to Mass Incarceration — Self
• The Shop — Self
• 2018Vice — Self (archival footage) (uncredited)
• 2018trustWHO — Self (archive footage)
• 2017A Dying King: The Shah of Iran — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Acorn and the Firestorm — Self (archive footage)
• 2017An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Architects of Denial — Self (archive footage)
• 2017August 28: A Day in the Life of a People — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Avicii: True Stories — Self - Former President USA (archive footage)
• 2017Chasing a Dream: Out of the Shadows — Self - Archived Footage
• 2017Fired Up! — Self (voice)
• 2017François Hollande, le mal-aimé — Self (archive footage)
• 2017He Did Go All the Way: A Chris Berman Tribute — Self
• 2017Jaha's Promise — Self (Archive footage)
• 2017Meet the Trumps: From Immigrant to President — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Meeting Snowden — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• Road to 9/11 — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Sea of Hope: America's Underwater Treasures — Self
• 2017The 44th President: In His Own Words — Self
• 2017The End: Inside The Last Days of the Obama White House — Self
• 2017The Harlem Hellfighters' Great War — Self
• 2017The Obama Years: The Power of Words — Self (archive footage)
• 2017The Words That Built America — Self - Reader: The Constitution
• Trump: An American Dream — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Velshi — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Zero Weeks — Self (archive footage)
• Код доступа — Self
• 201613th — Self (archive footage)
• 2016All Governments Lie: Truth, Deception, and the Spirit of I.F. Stone — Self (archive footage)
• 2016An Oprah Winfrey Special: First Lady Michelle Obama Says Farewell To The White House — Self
• 2016BET Presents Love & Happiness: An Obama Celebration — Self - Guest of Honor
• 2016Before the Flood — Self
• 2016Brexageddon?! — Self
• 2016Business of Disaster — Self - US President (archive footage)
• 2016Clinton Cash — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Espions pour la planète — Self
• 2016Hamilton's America — Self
• 2016Hero With A Thousand Faces — Self
• 2016How to Win the US Presidency — Self (archive footage)
• 2016HyperNormalisation — Self (archive footage)
• Inside Obama's White House — Self
• Jackie Robinson — Self
• 2016Jazz at the White House — Self
• 2016Marathon: The Patriots Day Bombing — Self (archive footage)
• 2016May 1, 2011 - Mets vs. Phillies — Self / Self (Archive Footage)
• 2016Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? — Self (archive footage)
• 2016National Bird — Self (Archive Footage)
• 2016National Museum of African American History and Culture Grand Opening Ceremony — Self
• 2016Newtown — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Paper Lanterns — Self
• 2016Prescription for Change: Ending America's Opioid Crisis — Himself
• 2016Shadow World — Self - Politician (archive footage)
• 2016The Occupation of the American Mind — Self (archive footage)
• 2016The Red Pill — Self (archive footage)
• 2016VICE Special Report: A House Divided — Self
• 2016Video Games: The New Masters of the World — Self (archive footage)
• 2016Zero Days — Self (archive footage)
• 2015400 Days — Self (archive footage)
• 201541 on 41 — Self
• 2015Chita Rivera: A Lot Of Livin' To Do — Self (archive footage)
• 2015David Attenborough Meets President Obama — Self
• 2015De twee gezichten van Ahmed Aboutaleb — Self
• 2015Dennis Rodman's Big Bang in PyongYang — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Dokument inifrån: Vad hände med försvaret? — Self - (Archive footage)
• I Am Cait — Self
• 2015Immigration Battle — Self
• 2015Imminent Threat — Self (archive footage)
• 2015It's Your 50th Christmas Charlie Brown — Self
• 2015Obama at War — Self
• 2015Pitch Perfect 2 — Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2015Reef Diaries — Self (uncredited)
• The 2000's: The Decade We Saw It All — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The Emperor's New Clothes — Self (archive footage)
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
• 2015The Making of Trump — Self (archive footage)
• 2015The Propaganda Game — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Tomorrow — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2015VICE Special Report: Fixing the System — Self
• 2015Who Is Donald Trump? — Self (archive footage)
• 2014A Smarter Country — Self
• 2014America: Imagine the World Without Her — Self - US President (archive footage)
• 2014Citizenfour — Self
• 2014Dawn of the Planet of the Apes — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2014E:60 - Dream On: Stories of Boston's Strongest — Self
• Emancipation Road — Self
• 2014JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Mitt — Self (archive footage)
• Running Wild with Bear Grylls — Self
• 2014The Price of Gold — Self (archive footage)
• 2014The State of Arizona — Self (archival footage)
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self, Self - Guest
• Trailblazer Honors — Self (archive footage)
• 2014VM-krönika 2014 — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Who Is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey — Self
• Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown — Self
• 2013Greedy Lying Bastards — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Inequality for All — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Koch — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2013Mistaken for Strangers — Self
• 2013Nash — Self
• 2013Pacific Rim — Self (archived footage)
• 2013Speeches That Shook the World — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Terms and Conditions May Apply — Self (archive footage)
• 2013The Kennedy Half Century — Self (archive footage)
• 2013The Presidents' Gatekeepers — Self (archive footage)
• 2013The World According to Dick Cheney — Self (archive footage)
• 2013War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State — Self - President (archive footage)
• 20122016: Obama's America — Self (archive footage)
• 201241 — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Battleship — Self (uncredited)
• CBS This Morning — Self
• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee — Self
• 2012Dreams from My Real Father — Self
• Finding Your Roots — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Killing Them Softly — Self (archive footage)
• Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States — Self
• 2012Shadows of Liberty — Self - US President (archive footage)
• 2012Speak Up — Himself
• 2012Steve Jobs: Visionary Genius — Self - Former US President
• 2012The Choice 2012 — Self
• 2012The Dictator — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2012The House I Live In — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2012The Road We've Traveled — Self
• 2012The Untold History Of The United States — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Top Priority: The Terror Within — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Delicacy — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2011Fear of a Black Republican — Self (archive footage)
• Mentiras verdaderas — Self (archive footage)
• 2011Reagan — Self (archive footage)
• Taking the Oath: America's History From Oval Office — Self (archive footage)
• 2011The After Party: The Last Party 3 — Self
• 2011The Undefeated — Self - President of the United States (archive footage)
• Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories — Self (archive footage)
• 2011You decide! — Self
• ZDFzoom — Self (archive footage)
• 2010A Day in the Life — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Climate Refugees — Self
• 2010Cool It — Self (archive footage)
• 2010How to Win the TV Debate — Self (archive footage)
• 2010I Want Your Money — Self (archive footage)
• 2010I'm Still Here — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2010Immigrant Nation! The Battle for the Dream — Self
• 2010Jake Gyllenhaal Challenges the Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize — Self
• 2010Land of Opportunity — Self
• 2010Motherland — Self
• 2010Operation: Endgame — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Paul McCartney: In Performance at the White House — Self
• R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour — Self (archive footage)
• 2010Territories — Himself (Archive Footage)
• 2010The American Matrix - Age Of Deception — Self
• 2010The President's Book of Secrets — Self (archive footage)
• Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2009A Moment in History - The Inauguration of Barack Obama — Self
• 2009A Question of Eligibility — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Barack Obama: The Power of Hope — Self
• 2009Becoming Barack — Self (archive footage)
• 2009By the People: The Election of Barack Obama — Self
• 2009Capitalism: A Love Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Convention — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Hive Mind — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2009Housequake — Self
• Iran and the West — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Marching Band — Self
• 2009Obama: All Access: The Road to the White House — Self
• 2009Right America: Feeling Wronged — Self
• 2009South of the Border — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants — Self
• 2009Stand — Self (archive footage)
• The Jay Leno Show — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2009The Obama Deception — Self (archive footage)
• 2009The Shock Doctrine — Self (archive footage)
• 2009We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial — Self
• 2009White House Revealed — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Yes We Can! - The Barack Obama Story — self
• 2008Barack Obama — Self
• 2008Barack Obama: His Story — Self
• Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis — Self
• 2008Examined Life — Self (floating on a boat in central park)
• 2008Hype: The Obama Effect — Self (archive footage)
• Markus Lanz — Self
• 2008The Choice 2008 — Self
• The Rachel Maddow Show — Self (archive footage)
• 2007Sand and Sorrow — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2006...So Goes the Nation — Self (archive footage)
• WWE ECW — Self
• The Colbert Report — Self - Guest
• 2005The Harlem Globetrotters: The Team That Changed the World — Self
• Tanner on Tanner — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• MythBusters — Self
• Real Time with Bill Maher — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Democracy Now! — Self (archive footage)
• White House Christmas — Self
• The Daily Show — Self, Self - Guest
• 1993A Journey in Black and White — Self
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self, Self - Top 10 Presenter, Self - Guest
• Raw — Self
• The World in Front — Self
• Frontline — Self (archive footage)
• Connie Martinson Talks Books — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited)
• 60 Minutes — Self
• Weltspiegel — Self
• Face the Nation — Self - U.S. President
• Closer to the Dream — Self
• The Presidents: Obama — Self