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| Title | Year | Status | Character |
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| 'Catch Me If You Can': The Casting of the Film | 2003 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| 9th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2003 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 14th Annual Producers Guild of America Awards | 2003 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| The Perilous Fight: America's World War II in Color | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| Saturday Night Live | 1979-2002 | TV Series | Himself / Himself - Host / Various |
| Kunst gegen Gewalt | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
| Late Night with Conan O'Brien | 1993-2002 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Cuba: The 40 Years War | 2002 | Documentary voice |
| The Anna Nicole Show | 2002 | TV Series | Himself |
| The 54th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 2002 | TV Special | Himself |
| Straight Up: Helicopters in Action | 2002 | Short documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion | 2002 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Rosy-Fingered Dawn: a Film on Terrence Malick | 2002 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 1999-2002 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Sudbina mi nije dala da odem | 2002 | Video documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| The Making of Bret Michaels | 2002 | Himself |
| National Memorial Day Concert | 2002 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The West Wing Documentary Special | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | President Jed Bartlet |
| Bringing Down a Dictator | 2002 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| When Shoulderpads Ruled the World | 2002 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 59th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 2002 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Nominee: Best Actor in a Television Series Drama & Presenter: Best Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy |
| The Papp Project | 2001 | Documentary | Himself |
| Bravo Profiles | 2001 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| National Geographic Video: Inside the Vatican | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| SOA: Guns and Greed | 2001 | Documentary short | Himself |
| The 53rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 2001 | TV Special | Himself - Nominated: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Presenter: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie |
| Echoes from the White House | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host |
| Enemies of War | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| Stockpile | 2001 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Rosie O'Donnell Show | 1996-2001 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| 7th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2001 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: Best Actor [Drama Series], Best Ensemble [Drama Series] |
| The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 2001 | TV Special | Himself - Winner: Actor in a TV-Series Drama |
| The World Sports Awards | 2001 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| 3rd Annual TV Guide Awards | 2001 | TV Special | Himself |
| Heroes for the Planet: A Tribute to National Geographic | 2001 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| 2000 Hispanic Heritage Awards | 2000 | TV Special | Himself |
| Great Wall Across the Yangtze | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| Money Never Sleeps | 2000 | Video documentary | Himself |
| Hollywood, D.C. | 2000 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Sur les traces de Terrence Malick | 2000 | Documentary | Himself |
| The 52nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 2000 | TV Special | Himself - Co-Presenter: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie |
| The Final Day | 2000 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| The 52nd Annual Directors Guild Awards | 2000 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 57th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 2000 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee: Best Performance by an Actor in a TV-Series Drama & Presenter: Best Actress in a TV-Series - Comedy / Musical |
| The Vietnam War: A Descent Into Hell | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| War Dogs: America's Forgotten Heroes | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The BBC and the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement Tribute to Richard Attenborough | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Twelve Apostles | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Nature | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| High Tension, Low Budget (The Making of a Letter from Death Row) | 1999 | Video documentary | Raine's Father / Himself |
| Crossing the Line | 1999 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Cinema Combat: Hollywood Goes to War | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Holes in Heaven | 1998 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Taylor's Campaign | 1998 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Phenomenon: The Lost Archives | 1998 | TV Series documentary | Voice Over |
| Bravo Profiles: The Entertainment Business | 1998 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| 1998 ALMA Awards | 1998 | TV Special | Himself |
| Hubble: Secrets from Space | 1998 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host (voice) |
| 187: Documented | 1997 | Documentary | Voice (voice) |
| Croatia: Land of 1,100 Islands & 101 Dalmatians | 1997 | Video documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster | 1997 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Tudjman | 1997 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Innovation | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host |
| The Soul of Christmas: A Celtic Music Celebration | 1997 | TV Movie | Himself |
| An Act of Conscience | 1997 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Marlon Brando: The Wild One | 1996 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Raise the Bamboo Curtain: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma | 1996 | Video documentary |
| Mexico | 1996 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| Congo: Journey Into the Unknown | 1995 | Video documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| Carrie on Hollywood | 1995 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Carrier: Fortress at Sea | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Once There Was a Ballpark | 1995 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Eyewitness | 1994 | TV Series documentary | Narrator (US Version) |
| World of Discovery | 1994 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| National Geographic Explorer | 1986-1994 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| 1968: The 25th Anniversary | 1993 | Documentary | Himself |
| Alive: 20 Years Later | 1993 | Video documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Intimate Portrait | 1993 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The King and I: Recording a Hollywood Dream | 1993 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Making of 'Gettysburg' | 1993 | Video documentary | Narrator / Himself / Gen. Robert E. Lee - Confederate |
| Hearts of Hot Shots Part Deux: A Filmmaker's Apology | 1993 | TV Short documentary | Himself |
| Choices | 1992 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Tonight Live with Steve Vizard | 1991 | TV Series | Himself |
| Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | Documentary | Himself |
| Un dia és un dia | 1990 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Cross Over | 1989 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The More You Know | 1989 | TV Series | Himself |
| Good Morning Britain | 1989 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Get Out the Vote | 1988 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Walking After Midnight | 1988 | Documentary | Himself |
| Messages from the Birds | 1988 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Host |
| The China Odyssey: 'Empire of the Sun', a Film by Steven Spielberg | 1987 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| War of the Stars | 1987 | TV Series 1987 |
| National Geographic Video: Secrets of the Titanic | 1986 | Video documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Josh, the Logan Legend | 1986 | Documentary | Himself |
| Broken Rainbow | 1985 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| In the Name of the People | 1985 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Spaceflight | 1985 | TV Series documentary | Narrator |
| The Funniest Joke I Ever Heard | 1984 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1984 | TV Special | Himself - Winner |
| Salute! | 1983 | TV Series | Himself |
| The Making of Gandhi: Mr. Attenborough and Mr. Gandhi | 1983 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The American Sportsman | 1982 | TV Series | Himself |
| I Love Liberty | 1982 | TV Special | Himself |
| The 37th Annual Golden Globe Awards | 1980 | TV Special | Himself |
| Good Morning America | 1979 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Lunch with Archer King | 2018 | Documentary filming | Himself |
| Circus of the Stars #3 | 1979 | TV Special documentary | Himself - Performer |
| Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle | 2017 | Documentary filming | Narrator |
| A Salute to American Imagination | 1978 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age | 2017 | Documentary post-production | Himself |
| The 30th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 1978 | TV Special | Himself |
| The World Is My Country | 2017 | Documentary post-production | Himself |
| Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary | 1977 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Requiem for the World | 2016 | Documentary post-production |
| Pat Neal Is Back | 1968 | Documentary short | Himself (uncredited) |
| A Rush to Judgment | Documentary post-production | Himself - Narrator |
| Until We Get Home | 2017 | Documentary short | Himself |
| Is O.J. Innocent? The Missing Evidence | 2017 | TV Mini-Series | Himself - Narrator |
| From: Manzanar To the Divided States of America | 2017 | Documentary short | Narrator |
| The Wounded Dove | 2016 | TV Series documentary | Narrator (2015) |
| The Insider | 2016 | TV Series | Himself |
| Paying the Price for Peace | 2016 | Documentary | Himself |
| PSA: Justice for Vets | 2016 | Video short | Himself |
| Ghost Town-The Hebron Story | 2015 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Iron Knight: Lou Gehrig | 2015 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Hammer of Hank Aaron | 2015 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Immortal: Ted Williams | 2015 | Documentary | Narrator |
| Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy | 2015 | Documentary | Himself |
| Unity | 2015 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| American Hercules: Babe Ruth | 2015 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Meredith Vieira Show | 2015 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Today | 1979-2015 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The View | 2007-2015 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | 2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| 2015 TV Land Awards | 2015 | TV Special | Himself |
| Entertainment Tonight | 2006-2015 | TV Series | Himself |
| Radical Kindness | 2014 | Documentary voice |
| Chabad Telethon | 2014 | TV Movie | Himself |
| The '90s: The Last Great Decade? | 2014 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Himself |
| Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey | 2014 | Documentary | Himself |
| Messenger of the Truth | 2013 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Salinger | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| Chabad Telethon | 2013 | TV Special | Himself |
| Defending Gideon | 2013 | Documentary short | Himself - Narrator |
| Piers Morgan Tonight | 2013 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Second Cooler | 2013 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot | 2013 | Documentary | Himself |
| Making 'Badlands' | 2013 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Rite of Passage: The Amazing Spider-Man Reborn | 2012 | Documentary | Himself |
| Death by China | 2012 | Documentary | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| Live with Kelly and Ryan | 2011-2012 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Big Morning Buzz Live | 2012 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Up Close with Carrie Keagan | 2007-2012 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Colbert Report | 2012 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Brothers on the Line | 2012 | Documentary | Narrator |
| More Than a Dream | 2012 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| Who Do You Think You Are? | 2012 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The Double: Interviews with the Producers | 2012 | Video short | Himself |
| Halfway Home | 2011 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Shell House Raid | 2011 | Documentary short voice |
| Most Shocking Celebrity Moments 2011 | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Hour | 2010-2011 | TV Series | Himself |
| CBS News Sunday Morning | 2011 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Tavis Smiley | 2011 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show | 2004-2011 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Sidewalks Entertainment | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
| Holy Man: The USA vs Douglas White | 2011 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Curiosity | 2011 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| Save the Farm | 2011 | Documentary short | Himself - Actor & Activist |
| Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| Miller's Tale | 2011 | Documentary | Himself |
| The One Show | 2011 | TV Series | Himself |
| Losing the Elephants | 2011 | TV Movie documentary | Himself (voice) |
| The Kennedy Detail | 2010 | TV Movie documentary | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| Días de cine | 2010 | TV Series | Himself |
| El hormiguero | 2010 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The Role That Changed My Life | 2010 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Shay Cullen: A Life Story | 2010 | Documentary | Himself (voice) |
| Skin Trade | 2010 | Documentary | Himself |
| Return to El Salvador | 2010 | Video documentary | Narrator |
| Water Wars | 2009 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Pax Americana and the Weaponization of Space | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| Apocalypse: La 2ème guerre mondiale | 2009 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Narrator (english version) |
| AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Michael Douglas | 2009 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Diners, Drive-ins and Dives | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| From Mills River to Babylon and Back: The Jimmy Massey Story | 2009 | Documentary | Himself |
| Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | 2009 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| Söndagsparty med Filip och Fredrik | 2009 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| The 7th Annual TV Land Awards | 2009 | TV Special | Himself |
| Franz Jaegerstaetter: A Man of Conscience | 2009 | Documentary short | Franz Jaegerstaetter (voice) |
| The Bonnie Hunt Show | 2009 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| White House Revealed | 2009 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The Sunday Night Project | 2009 | TV Series | Himself - Guest Host |
| Paris Hilton's British Best Friend | 2009 | TV Series | Himself |
| A Soldier's Peace | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| Vietnam: American Holocaust | 2008 | Video documentary | Narrator |
| Paris Hilton Gets Presidential with Martin Sheen | 2008 | Video short | Himself |
| Dean and Me: Roadshow of an American Primary | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| South Central Farm: Oasis in a Concrete Desert. | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself - Actor & Activist |
| The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards | 2008 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| Chabad: To Life Telethon | 2008 | TV Movie | Himself - Video Guest |
| Pirate for the Sea | 2008 | Documentary | Himself (actor, activist) |
| Penn & Teller: Bullshit! | 2008 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Actor |
| Finding Our Voices: Stories of American Dissent | 2008 | Documentary | Narrator |
| Gate: A True Story | 2008 | Documentary | Himself |
| Flower in the Gun Barrel | 2008 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The End of Poverty? | 2008 | Documentary | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| The Graham Norton Show | 2008 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| They Killed Sister Dorothy | 2008 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| One Water | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Exposing the Juarez Murders: The Making of 'Bordertown' | 2008 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Speechless | 2008 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Proving Holiness | 2007 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| On the Line | 2007 | Documentary | Himself |
| Confessions of an Innocent Man | 2007 | Documentary | Himself - Narrator (voice) |
| The Montel Williams Show | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| Corazón de... | 2007 | TV Series | Himself |
| AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies: 10th Anniversary Edition | 2007 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| The Dame Edna Treatment | 2007 | TV Series | Himself - Special Guest |
| L'hebdo cinéma | 2007 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| The 12th Annual Critics' Choice Awards | 2007 | TV Special | Himself - Presenter |
| Bobby: The Making of an American Epic | 2007 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Cinema 3 | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| America's Game: The Superbowl Champions | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Narrator / Himself - Narrator |
| Tubridy Tonight | 2006 | TV Series | Himself |
| HBO First Look | 2002-2006 | TV Series documentary short | Himself |
| The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards | 2006 | TV Special | Himself - Nominee & Presenter |
| A Million Feet of Film: The Editing of Apocalypse Now | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| The Music of Apocalypse Now | 2006 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| 50 Films to See Before You Die | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Ten Days That Unexpectedly Changed America | 2006 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Narrator |
| The People's President | 2006 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator |
| Between Iraq and a Hard Place | 2006 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| 12th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards | 2006 | TV Special | Himself |
| Who Killed the Electric Car? | 2006 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Aleut Story | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Biography | 2001-2005 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| James Dean: Forever Young | 2005 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| The 100 Greatest War Films | 2005 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Why Shakespeare? | 2005 | Video short documentary | Himself |
| The 31st Annual People's Choice Awards | 2005 | TV Special | Himself |
| Happy Birthday Oscar Wilde | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Winning New Hampshire | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| Diary of a Political Tourist | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Tell Them Who You Are | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| Natural Heroes | 2004 | TV Series documentary | Himself |
| Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate | 2004 | Documentary | Himself |
| The Rise of the Celebrity Class | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Rebel Frontier | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Learning to Sea | 2004 | Documentary short | Narrator (voice) |
| Helen's War | 2004 | TV Movie documentary | Himself |
| Absence of Malick | 2003 | Video documentary short | Himself |
| Get Up, Stand Up | 2003 | TV Series documentary | Himself - Interviewee |
| Celebrity Poker Showdown | 2003 | TV Series | Himself |
| Christmas in Rockefeller Center | 2003 | TV Movie | Himself |
| Charlie Rose | 2001-2003 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |
| All the Presidents' Movies | 2003 | TV Movie documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Hidden in Plain Sight | 2003 | Documentary | Narrator (voice) |
| Inside the Actors Studio | 2003 | TV Series | Himself - Guest |