| Ano | Nota | Título | Personagem |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | The Gettysburg Address | Self | |
| 2024 | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America | Himself | |
| 2024 | Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Self | |
| 2022 | Frederick Douglass: Em Cinco Discursos | Self | |
| 2022 | Frederick Douglass: Em Cinco Discursos | Executive Producer | |
| 2021 | Civil War (Or, Who Do We Think We Are) | Executive Producer | |
| 2021 | Arte Negra - Na Ausência da Luz | Executive Producer | |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Self | |
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | Self | |
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | Executive Producer | |
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | Writer | |
| 2019 | Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America | Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker | |
| 2018 | America's Library | Self | |
| 2017 | Not Black Enough | Self | |
| 2017 | Birth of a Movement | Self | |
| 2016 | A 13ª Emenda | Self | |
| 2016 | O Movimento Negro Desde Martin Luther King | - | |
| 2014 | Nas: Time Is Illmatic | Self | |
| 2009 | Looking for Lincoln | Self - Host | |
| 2009 | Looking for Lincoln | Writer | |
| 2009 | Looking for Lincoln | Executive Producer | |
| 2004 | A Place of Our Own | Self (as Henry Louis Gates) | |
| 2003 | Let the Church Say, Amen | Executive Producer | |
| 2003 | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property | Self | |
| 1999 | Leaving Cleaver | Self | |
| 1999 | Leaving Cleaver | Writer | |
| 1992 | Color Adjustment | Self |