Jesse Jackson
Acting
1941-10-08 · Greenville, South Carolina, USA
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. (October 8, 1941 — February 17, 2026) was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He founded of both entities that merged to form Rainbow/PUSH. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. is his eldest son. In an AP-AOL "Black Voices" poll in February 2006, Jackson was voted 'the most important black leader'.
Filmography
Hollywood Black
2024 · Series
South to Black Power
2023 · Movie
Loudmouth
2022 · Movie
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022 · Movie
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021 · Movie
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021 · Movie
Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
2021 · Series
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · Movie
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021 · Movie
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021 · Movie
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021 · Movie
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021 · Movie
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021 · Movie
Obama
2020 · Series
Bernie Blackout
2020 · Movie
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020 · Movie
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019 · Movie
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019 · Movie
Shut Up and Dribble
2018 · Series
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018 · Movie
Explained
2018 · Series
I Am MLK Jr.
2018 · Movie
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018 · Movie
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018 · Movie
Velshi
2017 · Series
LA 92
2017 · Movie
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016 · Movie
Crashing the Party
2016 · Movie
Fantastic Lies
2016 · Movie
We Are Many
2014 · Movie
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013 · Movie
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012 · Movie
A Man's Story
2011 · Movie
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009 · Movie
Joy Behar: Say Anything!
2009 · Series
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009 · Movie
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009 · Movie
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009 · Movie
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009 · Movie
The Day the Troubles Began
2008 · Movie
Ballou
2008 · Movie
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007 · Movie
Robins
2006 · Series
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer
2005 · Series
Tanner on Tanner
2004 · Series
Real Time with Bill Maher
2003 · Series
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · Series
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002 · Movie
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002 · Movie
Last Party 2000
2001 · Movie
Saturday Night Live: 25th Anniversary Special
1999 · Movie
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999 · Movie
University, Inc.
1999 · Movie
4 Little Girls
1997 · Movie
The Chris Rock Show
1997 · Series
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997 · Movie
The Daily Show
1996 · Series
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996 · Movie
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Series
Baseball
1994 · Series
The Soul of Stax
1994 · Movie
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993 · Movie
America's Political Parties: Power and Principle
1992 · Movie
Decade
1989 · Movie
Route One/USA
1989 · Movie
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988 · Movie
Tanner '88
1988 · Series
A Different World
1987 · Series
In Remembrance of Martin
1986 · Movie
Not Necessarily the News
1983 · Series
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983 · Movie
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982 · Movie
A Decade of Struggle
1980 · Movie
A Matter of Respect
1980 · Movie
Saturday Night Live
1975 · Series
Dinah!
1974 · Series
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973 · Movie
Save the Children
1973 · Movie
Wattstax
1973 · Movie
Nationtime: Gary
1972 · Movie
We Are Universal
1971 · Movie
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970 · Movie
Operation Breadbasket
1969 · Movie
Uptight
1968 · Movie
World in Action
1963 · Series
Dear Mister President
Movie