Overview
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Sep 16, 1950 (74 years old)
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Known For
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
Explores the transformative impact of Black migration on American culture...
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
Explore the work of one of the most renowned, respected...
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
Acclaimed actors draw from five of Douglass’ legendary speeches, to...
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
The 400-year-old story of the black church in America, the...
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.
Acting
2025
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2024
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024
Gospel
2022
Making Black America
2022
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2021
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2020
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020
Frontline: America's Great Divide
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2018
America's Library
2017
Not Black Enough
2017
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017
Birth of a Movement
2016
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016
13th
2016
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2013
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2012
Finding Your Roots
2010
Faces of America
2009
Looking for Lincoln
2004
A Place of Our Own
2004
America Beyond the Color Line
2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
1999
Wonders of the African World
1999
Leaving Cleaver