Henry 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.
2026W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a CauseMovieas Self
2026Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven HistoryTV showas Self - Host · Executive Producer · 4 episodes
2025The Gettysburg AddressMovieas Self
2025Great Migrations: A People on the MoveTV showas Self - Host · Executive Producer · 4 episodes
2024Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of AmericaMovieas Himself
2024GospelTV showas Self · Executive Producer · Writer · 4 episodes
2024Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Movieas Self
2022Making Black AmericaTV showExecutive Producer · Writer · 4 episodes2022Frederick Douglass: In Five SpeechesMovieas Self · Executive Producer
2021Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)MovieExecutive Producer
2021The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our SongTV showas Self - Host · Executive Producer · 2 episodes
2021Black Art: In the Absence of LightMovieExecutive Producer2020John Lewis: Good TroubleMovieas Self
2020America's Great Divide: From Obama to TrumpTV showas Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates) · 2 episodes2019WatchmenTV showas Skip Gates · 2 episodes
2019Who Killed Malcolm X?TV showExecutive Producer · 6 episodes2019Reconstruction: America After the Civil WarTV showas Self - Host · Executive Producer · Creator · 4 episodes
2019Reconstruction: America After the Civil WarMovieas Self · Executive Producer · Writer
2019Today with Jenna & SheinelleTV showas Self · 1 episodes
2018America's LibraryMovieas Self2017Not Black EnoughMovieas Self2017Africa's Great CivilizationsTV showas Self - Presenter · Writer · 6 episodes2017Birth of a MovementMovieas Self2016Black America Since MLK: And Still I RiseTV showas Self - Presenter · Writer · 4 episodes201613thMovieas Self2015The Late Show with Stephen ColbertTV showas Self · 1 episodes2014Nas: Time Is IllmaticMovieas Self2014The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonTV showas Self · as Self - Guest · 1 episodes
2013The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.TV showas Self · Creator · 6 episodes2012Finding Your RootsTV showas Self - Host · Writer · Executive Producer · 127 episodes2010America: The Story of UsTV showas Self · 5 episodes
2009Looking for LincolnMovieas Self - Host · Writer · Executive Producer2005The Colbert ReportTV show1 episodes
2004A Place of Our OwnMovieas Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
2004America Beyond the Color LineTV showas Self - Host · Writer · 4 episodes
2003Let the Church Say, AmenMovieExecutive Producer2003Nat Turner: A Troublesome PropertyMovieas Self2003Jimmy Kimmel Live!TV showas Self - Guest · 1 episodes
1999Leaving CleaverMovieas Self · Writer1997The ViewTV showas Self - Guest · as Self · 1 episodes1992Color AdjustmentMovieas Self1989The SimpsonsTV showas Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice) · 1 episodes
1980Great Railway JourneysTV showas Self - Presenter · 1 episodes