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Henry Louis Gates

Highest Rated: 100% Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) (2021)

Lowest Rated: 91% Black Art: In the Absence of Light (2021)

Birthday: Sep 16, 1950

Birthplace: Piedmont, West Virginia, USA

Highest rated movies

100% Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are)
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91% 62% Black Art: In the Absence of Light
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Looking for Lincoln
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73% Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
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Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Railroad Ties
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A Place of Our Own
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60% African American Lives 2
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 73% Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches Self,
Executive Producer
- 2022
100% No Score Yet Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) Executive Producer - 2021
91% 62% Black Art: In the Absence of Light Executive Producer - 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Railroad Ties Unknown (Character) - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Looking for Lincoln Unknown (Character),
Unknown (Character)
- 2009
No Score Yet 60% African American Lives 2 Unknown (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Place of Our Own Self - 2004
No Score Yet No Score Yet Wonders of the African World with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Unknown (Character),
Unknown (Character)
- 1999

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Great Migrations: A People on the Move Executive Producer 2025
No Score Yet No Score Yet Finding Your Roots Writer,
Executive Producer,
Host
2012 2014 2016-2017 2019-2025
No Score Yet No Score Yet To Dine For With Kate Sullivan Guest 2024
No Score Yet 50% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2019 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Poetry in America Guest 2024
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gospel Host 2024
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2021 2024
No Score Yet 12% The View Guest 2017 2021 2024
85% 76% The Simpsons Himself (Guest Voice) 2023
No Score Yet No Score Yet Making Black America: Through the Grapevine Executive Producer,
Host
2022
89% 80% The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Host 2021
100% No Score Yet Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Host 2019
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Daily Show Guest 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Africa's Great Civilizations Executive Producer,
Host
2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise Host 2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross Host 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell Guest 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mankind Decoded Self 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black in Latin America Host 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet La Plaza -- Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One Guest 2011
No Score Yet No Score Yet Faces of America With Henry Louis Gates Jr. Host 2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Colbert Report Guest 2008-2010
No Score Yet No Score Yet African American Lives 2 Host 2008
No Score Yet No Score Yet African American Lives Host 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Great Railway Journeys Host 1996