Acting

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2024		Gospel (4 episodes) as Self
2024		Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as Self

2022		Making Black America (4 episodes)
2022		Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches as Self

2021

(2 episodes) as Self - Host

2020		John Lewis: Good Trouble as Self
2020		Frontline: America's Great Divide as Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates)

2019		Watchmen (2 episodes) as Skip Gates
2019		Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (4 episodes) as Self - Host
2019		Reconstruction: America After the Civil War as Self

2018

as Self

2017		Not Black Enough as Self
2017		Africa's Great Civilizations (6 episodes) as Self - Presenter
2017		Birth of a Movement as Self

2016		Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise (4 episodes) as Self - Presenter
2016		13th as Self

2015		The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (1 episode) as Self
2015		The Gettysburg Address as Self

2014

as Self

2012

(106 episodes) as Self - Host

2010		America: The Story of Us (5 episodes) as Henry Louis Gates (0 episodes) as Self
2010		Faces of America (4 episodes)

2009

as Self - Host

2005

(1 episode)

2004		A Place of Our Own as Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
2004		America Beyond the Color Line (4 episodes) as Self - Host

2003

as Self

1999		Wonders of the African World (6 episodes) as Host
1999		Leaving Cleaver as Self

1997

(1 episode) as Self - Guest

1992

as Self

1989

(1 episode) as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice)

1980

(1 episode) as Self - Presenter