Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who was the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the first African-American president. Obama served as a U.S. senator representing Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
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Biography from TMDB.
- August 4, 1961 (65)
- Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Producer and actor
- 20 on MovieCove · 40 credits in all
What are Barack Obama's films like?
Across their 64 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Power.
Genres
Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 0 · Earnest 50
A split, not a type: Light 18 · Serious 15 · Dark 17
Grounded 47 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0
A split, not a type: Gentle 24 · Charged 17 · Intense 8
Steady 37 · Shifting 11 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 40 · Some laughs 9 · Funny 1
Slow burn 39 · Even-paced 11 · Relentless 0
Casual 20 · Engaged 24 · Full focus 6
A split, not a type: Easy watch 28 · Affecting 9 · Heavy 13
Resolved 39 · Open-ended 7 · Ambiguous 4
Roles they play
- Mentoras Narrator in Our Oceans (2024)
Moods and endings
- Happy12
- Bittersweet22
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous25
- Cyclical4
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Barack Obama's films?
As of October 24, 2026, all 20 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Netflix (18).
- Crip Camp (2020) · producer
- Our Oceans (2024) · actor, producer
- The Turnaround (2024) · producer
- Our Great National Parks (2022) · actor, producer
- Becoming (2020) · actor, producer
- Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds (2025) · producer
- Court of Gold (2025) · actor, producer
- American Symphony (2023) · producer
- Rustin (2023) · producer
- Starting 5 (2024) · producer
- Leave the World Behind (2023) · producer
- Waffles + Mochi (2021) · producer
- +6 more
Subscription and free streaming for Barack Obama's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
40 credits, 20 with a MovieCove page; 356 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.
The Altruists (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all shows
From Hope to Home: The Obama Presidential Center (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
Στο Χιλιοστό (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)
The Eyes of Ghana (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2025)
Court of Gold(2025)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all films
Our Oceans(2024)
Midcredits score: 89th percentile of all shows
The Turnaround(2024)
Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films
Starting 5(2024)
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Bodkin(2024)
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all shows
American Symphony(2023)
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Leave the World Behind(2023)
Midcredits score: 53rd percentile of all films
Rustin(2023)
Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films
Midcredits score: 34th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 29th percentile of all shows
Our Great National Parks(2022)
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
Gus and the TV Special (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
The Pledgefather (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)
8 Presidentes 1 Juramento: A História de um Tempo Presente (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2021)
Ada Twist, Scientist(2021)
Midcredits score: 11th percentile of all shows
We the People(2021)
Midcredits score: 1st percentile of all shows
Waffles + Mochi(2021)
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films
FACE OF FIRE (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2020)
Becoming(2020)
Midcredits score: 86th percentile of all films
Crip Camp(2020)
Midcredits score: 95th percentile of all films
Flint(2020)
Midcredits score: 75th percentile of all films
Revealing Ukraine (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2019)
Obama's farewell address (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
Secret Service Secrets (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
ITV Exposure (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Anima Mundi: Permaculture, Deep Ecology & the Soul of the World (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Epic Rap Battles of History (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
A Mother's Promise: Barack Obama Bio Film (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2008)
Senator Obama Goes to Africa (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Dispatches (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1987)
Exit West (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Journey (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
The Tiger Slam (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)
Career shape
A full career of 37 titles, 33 of them dated from 1987 to 2026.
Biggest box office
2016: Obama's America (2012)
Highest rated
Before the Flood (2016)
Most popular right now
Leave the World Behind (2023)
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
Awards
3 Primetime Emmys and 2 other major awards from 6 major nominations, 2006–2025.
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Narrator
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Narrator
- Primetime Emmy, won · Outstanding Narrator
+1 other major body · 1 nomination
- Grammy Award, nominated · Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling)
- Grammy Award, won · Best Spoken Word Album
- Grammy Award, won · Best Spoken Word Album
Major bodies only: the Oscars, Primetime Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Screen Actors Guild Awards are named; Cannes, Venice, the Berlinale, Sundance, the directors', writers' and producers' guilds, the Grammys, Critics Choice and the Independent Spirit Awards count as other major bodies. Festival and regional prizes are not counted. Source: IMDb.
How do Barack Obama's films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 75th percentile, the median of all 9; across their 50 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 70th percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up8
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th5
- Below 25th3
Shape of the crowd
7 of their 20 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved1
- Divisive3
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser7
- Broadly Agreed2
- Mixed6
Reviewers score the acting 57/100 in their films, across 11 reviewed titles; fans 68, detractors 49. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Barack Obama's work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Barack Obama work with?
People who share at least 2 of Barack Obama's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Michelle Obama shares the most, 20.
Directors
- Dawn PorterShared titles: 37 Words (2022), The Way I See It (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Dawn Porter
- Nicole NewnhamShared titles: 37 Words (2022), Crip Camp (2020)See all 2 shared titles with Nicole Newnham
- Jeremy KonnerShared titles: Waffles + Mochi (2021), Waffles + Mochi: Holiday Feast (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Jeremy Konner
- Peter W. KunhardtShared titles: Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union (2021), John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2018)See all 2 shared titles with Peter W. Kunhardt
Writers
- Chris NeeShared titles: Ada Twist, Scientist (2021), We the People (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Chris Nee
- David RadcliffShared titles: Waffles + Mochi (2021), Crip Camp (2020)See all 2 shared titles with David Radcliff
- Erika ThormahlenShared titles: Waffles + Mochi (2021), Waffles + Mochi: Holiday Feast (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Erika Thormahlen
Actors
- Michelle ObamaShared titles: Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds (2025), Court of Gold (2025), Bodkin (2024), Starting 5 (2024), American Symphony (2023), Leave the World Behind (2023), The G Word with Adam Conover (2022), Ada Twist, Scientist (2021), Waffles + Mochi (2021), Waffles + Mochi: Holiday Feast (2021), We the People (2021), Becoming (2020) and 8 moreSee newest 12 of 20 shared titles with Michelle Obama
- George W. BushShared titles: Turning Point: Generation 9/11 (2026), The Way I See It (2020), The River and the Wall (2019), John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2018), Zero Weeks (2017), The Emperor's New Clothes (2015), Koch (2012), The President's Book of Secrets (2010), South of the Border (2009)See all 9 shared titles with George W. Bush
- Joe BidenShared titles: Turning Point: Generation 9/11 (2026), The Way I See It (2020), RUTH - Justice Ginsburg in her own Words (2019), John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2018), King Bibi (2018), The 44th President: In His Own Words (2017), 2016: Obama's America (2012), Convention (2009)See all 8 shared titles with Joe Biden
- Hillary ClintonShared titles: The Way I See It (2020), The River and the Wall (2019), John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2018), Reversing Roe (2018), The President's Book of Secrets (2010), Convention (2009)See all 6 shared titles with Hillary Clinton
Composers and cinematographers
- Clair PopkinShared titles: American Symphony (2023), Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union (2021), The Way I See It (2020), John McCain: For Whom the Bell Tolls (2018)See all 4 shared titles with Clair Popkin
- Paul BrillShared titles: Rigged: The Voter Suppression Playbook (2019), Reversing Roe (2018), THE END: Inside the Last Days of the Obama White House (2017), Right America: Feeling Wronged - Some Voices from the Campaign Trail (2009)See all 4 shared titles with Paul Brill
- Connor GallagherShared titles: Our Oceans (2024), Our Great National Parks (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Connor Gallagher
- Louis Labrom-BrownShared titles: Our Oceans (2024), Our Great National Parks (2022)See all 2 shared titles with Louis Labrom-Brown
Producers
- Tonia DavisShared titles: Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds (2025), Bodkin (2024), Leave the World Behind (2023), The G Word with Adam Conover (2022), Ada Twist, Scientist (2021), Waffles + Mochi (2021), Waffles + Mochi: Holiday Feast (2021), We the People (2021), Becoming (2020), Crip Camp (2020)See all 10 shared titles with Tonia Davis
- Priya SwaminathanShared titles: Working: What We Do All Day (2023), The G Word with Adam Conover (2022), Ada Twist, Scientist (2021), Waffles + Mochi (2021), Waffles + Mochi: Holiday Feast (2021), We the People (2021), Becoming (2020), Crip Camp (2020)See all 8 shared titles with Priya Swaminathan
- Ethan LewisShared titles: Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds (2025), Starting 5 (2024), Working: What We Do All Day (2023)See all 3 shared titles with Ethan Lewis
- Rachel AntellShared titles: 37 Words (2022), Crip Camp (2020), The Way I See It (2020)See all 3 shared titles with Rachel Antell
Mixed roles
- Susan AnsmanShared titles: Court of Gold (2025), Starting 5 (2024)See all 2 shared titles with Susan Ansman
- Katie CouricShared titles: For Love & Life: No Ordinary Campaign (2022), Right America: Feeling Wronged - Some Voices from the Campaign Trail (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Katie Couric
- Lyric LewisShared titles: Waffles + Mochi (2021), Waffles + Mochi: Holiday Feast (2021)See all 2 shared titles with Lyric Lewis
- Gustavo SantaolallaShared titles: Before the Flood (2016), South of the Border (2009)See all 2 shared titles with Gustavo Santaolalla
