(1988) Eight Men Out

as Hugh Fullerton

(1982) The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time

as Self

(1984) The Dollmaker

as Taxi Driver

(1997) The Big One

as Self - Author / Radio Host

(2021) Algren

as Self

(1985) Studs Terkel's Chicago

as Self

(2006) Cheat You Fair: The Story of Maxwell Street

as self

(1997) Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory

as ---

(2007) Quearborn & Perversion: An Early History of Lesbian & Gay Chicago

as Self

(2005) A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin

as ---

(2009) Studs Terkel: Listening to America

as Self

(1992) Harry Bridges: A Man and His Union

as Self (voice)

(2009) Soul of a People: Writing America's Story

as Self

(1984) The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War

as Himself

(1972) Chicago Blues

as ---

(2015) Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...

as ---

(1982) Working

as Self - Host

(1992) To Write and Keep Kind

as Poetry Reader

(2004) Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

as Other Voices (voice)

(1997) Anthem

as Self

(1989) Ridin' the Dog

as Narrator

(1996) Corwin

as Self

(1996) The Daily Show

as Self

(1990) The Civil War

as Benjamin Butler / Various

(2004) The Culture Show

as Self

(2011) Prohibition

as Self - Writer

Assignment America

as ---

(1994) Baseball

as Self / (voice)