Biography
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Acting
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.
Career works
42
Movies
19
Series
23
Career average
6.9/10
Birth date
09/16/1950
Place of birth
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Filmography highlights
Movies
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
2026 · 5.0
The Gettysburg Address
2025
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2024
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022 · 4.6
John Lewis: Good Trouble
2020 · 4.1
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · 7.0
America's Library
2018
Not Black Enough
2017 · 7.8
Birth of a Movement
2017 · 6.4
13th
2016 · 7.8
Black America since MLK: And still I rise
2016
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
2014 · 7.0
Looking for Lincoln
2009
A Place of Our Own
2004 · 9.0
Series
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026 · 5.3
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025
Gospel
2024 · 10.0
Making Black America
2022 · 6.0
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021
America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump
2020
Watchmen
2019 · 7.6
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
2019 · 7.0
Today with Jenna & Sheinelle
2019 · 3.3
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017 · 8.0
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016 · 9.0
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015 · 6.1
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · 5.8
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013 · 10.0
Finding Your Roots
2012 · 6.4