Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Filmography
“Many Rivers to Cross: The African Americans,” writer, narrator, and executive producer.
Six-part series. PBS. October 22 – November 26, 2013.
“Finding Your Roots,” writer, narrator, and executive producer.
Ten-part series, March 25-May 20, 2012.
“Black in Latin America,” writer, narrator, and executive producer.
Four-hour series, PBS, April 19-May 10, 2011.
“Faces of America,” writer, narrator, and executive producer.
Four-hour series, PBS, February 10-March 3, 2010.
“Looking for Lincoln,” writer, narrator, and executive producer.
Two-hour program, PBS, February 11, 2009.
“African American Lives 2,” writer, narrator, and executive producer.
Four-hour series, PBS, February 6 and 13, 2008.
“Oprah’s Roots: An African American Lives Special,” writer, narrator, and executive producer.
One-hour program, PBS, January 24, 2007.
“African American Lives,” writer, narrator and executive producer.
Four-hour series, PBS, February 1 and 8, 2006.
“America Beyond the Color Line,” writer and narrator.
Four-hour series, BBC2./PBS, February 2 and 4, 2004.
“Wonders of the African World,” writer and narrator.
Six part-series, PBS, October 25-27, 1999 (shown as “Into Africa” on BBC-2 in the United Kingdom and South Africa, Summer, 1999).
“Leaving Cleaver: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Remembers Eldridge Cleaver,” writer, narrator, and correspondent. WGBH, 1999.
“The Two Nations of Black America,” writer, narrator and producer. On “Frontline,” WGBH-TV, February 11, 1998.
“From Great Zimbabwe to Kilimatinde,” writer and narrator. In “Great Rail Journeys,” BBC/PBS, 1996.
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