Spike Lee
Directing • AGE 69
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker and actor. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contempo...
Filmography
The 51st AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy
Self
2026
Talk Me
Executive Producer
2026
Mr. Scorsese
Self
2025
Megadoc
Thanks
2025
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Executive Producer
2025
From Sidney, with Love
Executive Producer
2025
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
Executive Producer
2025
Highest 2 Lowest
Director
2025
How I Learned to Die
Executive Producer
2025
Nervous Energy
Executive Producer
2025
In Between Storms
Executive Producer
2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
Self (archive footage)
2025
The Truck
Executive Producer
2024
PUNTER
Executive Producer
2024
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
2024
F*ck That Guy
Executive Producer
2024
In Freedom
Executive Producer
2023
Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?
self
2023
The Moviemakers: Spike Lee
Self
2023
You Resemble Me
Executive Producer
2022
Denzel Washington: A Model American
Self
2022
Gold Blooded
Self
2022
Sidney
Self
2022
The Captain
Executive Producer
2022
Off-Time
Associate Producer
2022
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
Self
2022
They Call Me Magic
Self
2022
NYC Epicenters 9/11➔2021½
Producer
2021
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
Self
2021
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
Self
2021
This Is Pop
Self (archive footage)
2021
Directors on Directors
Self
2021
Son of the South
Executive Producer
2021
Pretend It's a City
Self
2021
Tales from the Hood 3
Executive Producer
2020
David Byrne's American Utopia
Director
2020
Da 5 Bloods
Writer
2020
Dear...
Self
2020
3 Brothers: Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd
Director
2020
New York New York
Director
2020
Tamron Hall
Self - Guest
2019
See You Yesterday
Producer
2019
Desus & Mero
Self - Illustrious Guest
2019
Land of the Free
Director
2019
Amazing Grace
Producer
2018
Cherish
Executive Producer
2018
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
Self
2018
Basketball: A Love Story
Self (archive footage)
2018
BlacKkKlansman
Writer
2018
Tales from the Hood 2
Executive Producer
2018
Time 2 Surrender
Executive Producer
2018
Nigerian Prince
Executive Producer
2018
Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1
Self
2018
The Black 14
Executive Producer
2018
Pass Over
Producer
2018
She's Gotta Have It
Drum Major
2017
Plankton Salesmen
Self (archive footage)
2017
Rodney King
Director
2017
Be Truly Free
Narrator (voice)
2017
Birth of a Movement
Self
2017
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: $15 Kicks
Executive Producer
2016
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: Redemption Song
Executive Producer
2016
2 Fists Up
Director
2016
Touched with Fire
Executive Producer
2016
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
Self
2016
Chi-Raq
Director
2015
NBA 2K16’s Livin’ Da Dream: A Spike Lee Joint
Reporter (voice)
2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: Of the Father and of the Son
Executive Producer
2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
2015
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: The Greatest Catch Ever
self
2015
French Cinema Mon Amour
Self
2015
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: The Ice Breaker
Executive Producer
2015
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: Italian Imports
Assistant Director
2015
Champs
Self
2015
The Girl Is in Trouble
Executive Producer
2015
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
Screenplay
2015
Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth
2015
Stop
Thanks
2015
Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store
Director
2014
Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience
self
2014
Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife
Director
2014
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
Self
2014
Dirty Hands
Executive Producer
2014
Evolution of a Criminal
Executive Producer
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self
2014
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
Director
2013
Oldboy
Director
2013
Bad 25
Self
2012
Red Hook Summer
Mr. Mookie
2012
You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You
Executive Producer
2012
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
Self
2012
One Night
Presenter
2012
Brooklyn Boheme
Self
2012
Pariah
Executive Producer
2011
A Man's Story
Self
2011
Doubles with Slight Pepper
Executive Producer
2011
Guest
Self
2011
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
Four Days in October
Self (archive footage)
2010
If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise
Director
2010
Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
Self
2010
Who Do You Think You Are?
Self
2010
Passing Strange
Director
2009
PoliWood
Self
2009
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
Self
2009
Kobe Doin' Work
Self
2009
Miracle at St. Anna
Director
2008
Genesis | Come Rain or Shine
Camera Operator
2008
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Self
2008
Pixote In Memoriam
Self
2007
Lights, Action, Music
Self
2007
Shark
Director
2006
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Producer
2006
Inside Man
Director
2006
All the Invisible Children
Director
2006
Jesus Children of America
Director
2005
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
Presenter
2005
Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation
Self
2005
Street Fight
Self
2005
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
2005
Miracle's Boys
Director
2005
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
Self
2005
Through the Fire
2005
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
Self
2004
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
Self
2004
Sucker Free City
Director
2004
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
Self
2004
She Hate Me
Director
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Self
2003
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
Self
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Self - Guest
2003
Good Fences
Executive Producer
2003
25th Hour
Producer
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
Director
2002
Jim Brown: All-American
Director
2002
It's Black Entertainment
Self
2002
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
Self
2002
Come Rain or Come Shine
Director of Photography
2001
The Concert for New York City
Director
2001
Home Invaders
Executive Producer
2001
3 A.M.
Filmmaker
2001
A Huey P. Newton Story
Director
2001
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
Self
2001
Bamboozled
Director
2000
The Original Kings of Comedy
Director
2000
Bernie Mac: Live from Charlotte
Director
2000
Lisa Picard Is Famous
Spike Lee
2000
Michael Jordan to the Max
Self
2000
Love & Basketball
Producer
2000
One Morning All Over the World
Director
2000
The Early Show
Self
1999
The Best Man
Producer
1999
Summer of Sam
John Jeffries
1999
Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo
Director
1999
John Leguizamo: Freak
Director
1998
Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia
Director
1998
He Got Game
Screenplay
1998
The View
Self
1997
4 Little Girls
Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
1997
HIStory on Film, Volume II
Director
1997
The Chris Rock Show
Self
1997
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
Self
1996
When We Were Kings
Self
1996
Get on the Bus
Director
1996
The Daily Show
Self - Guest
1996
The Universal Story
Self (archive footage)
1996
Girl 6
Jimmy
1996
Lumière & Company
Self (segment "Sarah Moon")
1995
Clockers
Chucky
1995
Tales from the Hood
Executive Producer
1995
New Jersey Drive
Executive Producer
1995
Below the Rim
1995
Drop Squad
Himself
1994
Hoop Dreams
Self
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
Crooklyn
Snuffy
1994
A Century of Cinema
Self
1994
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1993
Farewell, Babylon!
Self
1993
The Last Party
Self
1993
Malcolm X
Shorty
1992
Prince and the N.P.G.: Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection
Director
1992
Ghostwriter
Special Agent Pete (archive footage)
1992
Sous les marches du palais
Self
1991
Jungle Fever
Cyrus
1991
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
Self
1991
Branford Marsalis: Steep
Self
1991
Suspect
Thanks
1991
Lonely in America
Spike Lee (Newsstand Customer) (uncredited)
1990
Mo' Better Blues
Giant
1990
Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella
1990
In Living Color
1990
Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella
Self
1990
Decade
Self
1989
First Works
Self
1989
Do the Right Thing
Mookie
1989
Public Enemy: Fight the Power... Live!
1989
Yo! MTV Raps
Self
1988
School Daze
Darrell 'Half-Pint' Dunlap
1988
Horn of Plenty
Writer
1986
She's Gotta Have It
Mars Blackmon
1986
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
Director
1983
The Answer
Director
1980
Saturday Night Live
Mars Blackmon
1975
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Great Performances
Self
1971
The Oscars
Self
1953
Boner
Writer