Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
ActingHenry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. is an American historian, literary critic, filmmaker and public intellectual who currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Movies
Self
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026
Self
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Himself
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024
Self
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024
Self
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
Self
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
Self
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Self
America's Library
2018
Self
Not Black Enough
2017
Self
Birth of a Movement
2017
Self
13th
2016
Self
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
Self - Host
Looking for Lincoln
2009
Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
A Place of Our Own
2004
Self
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
Self
Leaving Cleaver
1999
Self
Color Adjustment
1992
TV Shows
Self - Host
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026
Self - Host
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
Self
Gospel
2024
Making Black America
2022
Self - Host
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
Skip Gates
Watchmen
2019
Self - Host
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Self
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019
Self - Presenter
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017
Self - Presenter
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016
Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Self
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
Self - Host
Finding Your Roots
2012
Self
America: The Story of Us
2010
The Colbert Report
2005
Self - Host
America Beyond the Color Line
2004
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