Forché appeared in the Ken Burns Oscar-nominated documentary The Statue of Liberty in 1985.[18]
In November 2013, Forché was interviewed as both scholar and poet for the documentary Poetry of Witness, directed by independent filmmakers Billy Tooma and Anthony Cirilo.
In 2022, the album The Blue Hour was released, based on lyrics from the poem On Earth from the collection Blue Hour: Poems. The song cycle was commissioned by the Boston chamber orchestra A Far Cry and the music was composed by five female composers: Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Shara Nova, Caroline Shaw and Sarah Kirkland Snider.[19]
