Jesse Jackson
Acting
Born October 8, 1941 · 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'.
Films (62)
South to Black Power
2023
Loudmouth
2022
El otro Rey de Chicago
2022
Punch 9 for Harold Washington
2021
Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over
2021
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021
September First, Twenty-Twenty
2021
Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story
2021
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
2021
Killing Martin Luther King Jr.
2021
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
2021
Uncle Tom
2020
Bernie Blackout
2020
Someday We'll all Be Free: The Donny Hathaway Story
2020
Stax, le label soul légendaire
2019
Chicago at the Crossroad
2019
The Road to Mass Incarceration
2018
Rise Up: The Movement that Changed America
2018
I Am MLK Jr.
2018
Hope & Fury: MLK, the Movement and the Media
2018
LA 92
2017
'85: The Greatest Team in Football History
2016
Crashing the Party
2016
Fantastic Lies
2016
We Are Many
2014
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
2013
MLK: The Assassination Tapes
2012
A Man's Story
2011
Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
2009
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
2009
Michael Jackson Memorial
2009
The Nine Lives of Marion Barry
2009
Anecdotes about Fidel
2009
The Day the Troubles Began
2008
Ballou
2008
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War
2007
Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Last Party 2000
2001
The Subtext of a Yale Education
1999
University, Inc.
1999
4 Little Girls
1997
Mahalia Jackson: The Power and the Glory
1997
The Journey of the African-American Athlete
1996
The Soul of Stax
1994
Crusade: The Life of Billy Graham
1993
Decade
1989
Route One/USA
1989
Jackie Robinson: An American Journey
1988
In Remembrance of Martin
1986
Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy
1983
Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip
1982
A Decade of Struggle
1980
A Matter of Respect
1980
Contradictory America. Faith, hope, love and hate. Film 2
1973
Save the Children
1973
Wattstax
1973
Nationtime
1972
We Are Universal
1971
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
Operation Breadbasket
1969
Uptight
1968