Henry Louis Gates Jr.
b. 1950 (age 76)
Keyser, West Virginia, USA
Writer
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.
Known For
Filmography
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★ 6.5
Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History
2026 Self
Writer
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★ 4.4
Great Migrations: A People on the Move
2025 Self
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We Heart Public Television!
2025 Self
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★ 6.6
Gospel
2024 Self
Writer
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★ 2.5
Gospel LIVE! Presented by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2024 Self
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★ 3.1
GOSPEL special companion concert with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2024 Self
Writer
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★ 3.4
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America
2024 Self
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★ 2.5
88th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
2023 Self
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★ 7.6
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
2022 Self
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★ 6.5
Making Black America: Through the Grapevine
2022 Self
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★ 2.7
Making Black America with Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2022 Self
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★ 6.2
A Dream Delivered: The Lost Letters of Hawkins Wilson
2022 Self
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★ 7.5
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
2021 Self
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★ 4.0
The WikiTree Challenge
2021 Self
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★ 6.0
Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years!
2020 Self
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★ 8.1
Reconstruction: America after The Civil War
2019 Self
Writer
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★ 2.4
Black History in Two Minutes (or so)
2019 Self
Writer
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★ 6.2
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019 Self
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★ 6.0
Railroad Ties
2019 Actor
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★ 7.0
Detroit: Comeback City
2018 Self
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★ 4.5
America's Library
2018 Self
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★ 7.2
Africa's Great Civilizations
2017 Self
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★ 7.2
Ken Burns: America's Storyteller
2017 Self
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★ 2.2
Finding Your Roots: The Seedlings
2017 Self
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★ 7.7
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise
2016 Actor
Host - Narrator
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★ 6.8
The Hip-Hop Fellow
2014 Self
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★ 8.6
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
2013 Self
Writer
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★ 8.7
Finding Your Roots
2012 Self
Writer
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★ 7.7
Mankind: The Story of All of Us
2012 Self
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★ 7.1
Black in Latin America
2011 Self
Writer
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★ 7.7
Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2010 Self
Writer
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★ 1.0
Reflections of Us
2010 Self
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★ 5.5
Looking for Lincoln
2009 Self
Writer
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★ 1.8
African American Lives 2
2008 Self
Writer
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★ 4.2
Oprah's Roots: An African American Lives Special
2007 Self
Writer
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★ 7.3
African American Lives
2006 Self
Writer
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★ 7.8
A Place of Our Own
2004 Self
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★ 7.1
America Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
2002 Actor
Writer
Presenter
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★ 6.8
Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
1999 Self
Writer
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★ 2.6
Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver
1999 Self
Director
Writer
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★ 7.7
Great Railway Journeys
1994 Writer
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★ 7.4
Color Adjustment
1992 Self
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★ 8.6
Frontline
1983 Writer
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Savile Row: The Andrew Ramroop Story
Actor
VIP Client