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.

Filmography

• 2023James Baldwin Abroad — Self, Writer
• 2022Brother, Where Are You? — Original Story
• 2018If Beale Street Could Talk — Novel
• 2018Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
• 2017I Am Not Your Negro — Self (archive footage), Writer
• 2003The James Baldwin Anthology
• 1998Where the Heart Is — Original Film Writer
• 1992Malcolm X — Screenplay
• 1992Toc Storee — Novel
• 1984Go Tell It on the Mountain — Novel
• American Playhouse — Novel
• 1982I Heard It Through the Grapevine — Writer
• SOUL!
• 1963The Negro and the American Promise
• World in Action
• Assignment America

Appearances as themselves (25)

• 2025The New Yorker at 100 — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Madonna: Madame X — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2021i ran from it and was still in it — Self (voice) (archive footage)
• 2020De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade — Self
• Bobby Kennedy for President — Self (archive footage)
• Explained — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Mr. SOUL! — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Target: St. Louis Vol. 1 — Self (archive footage)
• 2017The Madding Crowd — Self (archive footage)
• 2014A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else — Self (archive footage)
• 2013Off-White Tulips — Self
• 2011Public Speaking — Self (archive footage)
• 1989James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket — Self (archive footage)
• 1985The Statue of Liberty — Self - Writer
• I Remember Harlem — self
• 1978The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre — Himself
• 1973James Baldwin: From Another Place — Self
• 1971Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris — Self
• 1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis — Self (archive footage)
• 1968Baldwin's Nigger — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• 1965Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley — Self
• 1964Take This Hammer — Self
• 1962James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village — Self