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
13th
(2016)
Self
Full Filmography
Acting
Color Adjustment
(1992)
Self
Leaving Cleaver
(1999)
Self
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
(2003)
Self
A Place of Our Own
(2004)
Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
Looking for Lincoln
(2009)
Self - Host
Nas: Time Is Illmatic
(2014)
Self
The Gettysburg Address
(2015)
Self
13th
(2016)
Self
Birth of a Movement
(2017)
Self
Not Black Enough
(2017)
Self
America's Library
(2018)
Self
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
(2019)
Self
Frontline: America's Great Divide
(2020)
Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)
John Lewis: Good Trouble
(2020)
Self
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
(2022)
Self
Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
(2024)
Self
Writing
Leaving Cleaver
(1999)
Writer
Looking for Lincoln
(2009)
Writer
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
(2019)
Writer
Production
Let the Church Say, Amen
(2003)
Executive Producer
Looking for Lincoln
(2009)
Executive Producer
Reconstruction: America After the Civil War
(2019)
Executive Producer
Black Art: In the Absence of Light
(2021)
Executive Producer
Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
(2021)
Executive Producer
Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
(2022)
Executive Producer