Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting
September 16, 1950
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Biography
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.
Movies
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014
13th
2016
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Leaving Cleaver
1999
Color Adjustment
1992
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022
Birth of a Movement
2017
Not Black Enough
2017
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
Looking for Lincoln
2009
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
A Place of Our Own
2004
America's Library
2018
TV Shows
The Simpsons
1989
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Colbert Report
2005
The View
1997
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
Watchmen
2019
Finding Your Roots
2012
Today with Hoda & Jenna
2019
America: The Story of Us
2010
Great Railway Journeys
1980
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
America Beyond the Color Line
2004
Gospel
2024
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013
Making Black America
2022
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019