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.

Filmography

• Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• Great Migrations: A People on the Move — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• Gospel — Self, Executive Producer, Writer
• 2022Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches — Self, Executive Producer
• Making Black America — Executive Producer, Writer
• 2021Black Art: In the Absence of Light — Executive Producer
• 2021Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) — Executive Producer
• The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song — Self - Host, Executive Producer
• 2019Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America — Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker
• 2019Reconstruction: America After the Civil War — Self, Executive Producer, Writer
• Reconstruction: America After the Civil War — Self - Host, Executive Producer, Creator
• Watchmen — Skip Gates
• Who Killed Malcolm X? — Executive Producer
• Africa's Great Civilizations — Self - Presenter, Writer
• Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise — Self - Presenter, Writer
• The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. — Self, Creator
• Finding Your Roots — Self - Host, Writer, Executive Producer
• Faces of America
• 2009Looking for Lincoln — Self - Host, Executive Producer, Writer
• The Colbert Report
• America Beyond the Color Line — Self - Host, Writer
• 2003Let the Church Say, Amen — Executive Producer
• 1999Leaving Cleaver — Self, Writer
• Wonders of the African World — Host, Writer
• The Simpsons — Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)

Appearances as themselves (21)

• 2026W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause — Self
• 2025The Gettysburg Address — Self
• 2024Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. — Self
• 2024Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America — Himself
• America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump — Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
• 2020John Lewis: Good Trouble — Self
• Today with Jenna & Sheinelle — Self
• 2018America's Library — Self
• 2017Birth of a Movement — Self
• 2017Not Black Enough — Self
• 201613th — Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self
• 2014Nas: Time Is Illmatic — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self, Self - Guest
• America: The Story of Us — Self
• 2004A Place of Our Own — Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• 2003Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property — Self
• The View — Self - Guest
• 1992Color Adjustment — Self
• Great Railway Journeys — Self - Presenter