Acting

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Born 1954-05-08 · London, England, UK

Acting credits

Netflix Tudum 2025 poster
5.5

Celebrate your favorite shows and movies at this star-studded, live global fan event with special performances and exclusive reveals.

Netflix Tudum 2025

2025

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Actor Courtney B. Vance hosts this special celebrating Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s work with focus on his five quintessential documentary series about American, African and African American history for PBS.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America

2019

The Divide poster
6.7

The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in modern day US and UK - where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%. By plotting these tales together, we uncover how virtually every aspect of our lives is controlled by one factor: the size of the gap between rich and poor.The film is inspired by "The Spirit Level" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.

The Divide

2015

Examined Life poster
6.5

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy's power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.

Examined Life

2008

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The Honor Code illustrates the ideas of philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah whobelieves honor is the key to lasting social change from within. With a storyteller's flairand a philosopher's rigor, Appiah shows how the concept of honor propelled moralrevolutions in the past and can do so in the future too.

The Honor Code

2012

Let Me Take You Through the Paths poster
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The short film produced by Fronteiras do Pensamento in partnership with Okna Produções reflects on the connection between people in contemporary times. The film by Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher shows people walking in the streets, lost under the gaze of cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah. We are all together, but we don't always realize it.

Let Me Take You Through the Paths

2014