Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1972	Chicago Blues		0
2	1982	The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time	Self	72
3	1982	Working	Self - Host	43
4	1984	The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War	Himself	48
5	1984	The Dollmaker	Taxi Driver	75
6	1985	Studs Terkel's Chicago	Self	0
7	1988	Eight Men Out	Hugh Fullerton	69
8	1989	Ridin' the Dog	Self - Narrator (voice)	0
9	1992	Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union	Self (voice)	0
10	1992	To Write and Keep Kind	Poetry Reader	0
11	1996	Corwin	Self	0
12	1997	Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory		100
13	1997	Anthem	Self	50
14	1997	The Big One	Self - Author / Radio Host	67
15	2004	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson	Other Voices (voice)	71
16	2005	A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin		63
17	2006	Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street	self	0
18	2007	Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago	Self	0
19	2009	Studs Terkel: Listening to America	Self	55
20	2009	Soul of a People: Writing America's Story	Self	0
21	2015	Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...		0
22	2021	Algren	Self	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1990	The Civil War	Benjamin Butler / Various	80
2	1994	Baseball	Self / (voice)	73
3	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
4	2004	The Culture Show	Self	62
5	2011	Prohibition	Self - Writer	79
6		Assignment America		0