| 2022 | Frederick Douglass: Em Cinco Discursos | Personagem - Self |
| 2014 | Nas: Time Is Illmatic | Personagem - Self |
| 2018 | America's Library | Personagem - Self |
| 2024 | Gospel Live! Presented By Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Personagem - Self |
| 2016 | O Movimento Negro Desde Martin Luther King | Sem informação |
| 2016 | A 13ª Emenda | Personagem - Self |
| 2017 | Birth of a Movement | Personagem - Self |
| 2003 | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property | Personagem - Self |
| 2004 | A Place of Our Own | Personagem - Self (as Henry Louis Gates) |
| 1992 | Color Adjustment | Personagem - Self |
| 2017 | Not Black Enough | Personagem - Self |
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | Personagem - Self |
| 2009 | Looking for Lincoln | Personagem - Self - Host |
| 2025 | The Gettysburg Address | Personagem - Self |
| 1999 | Leaving Cleaver | Personagem - Self |
| 2020 | John Lewis: Good Trouble | Personagem - Self |
| 2024 | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - The Fabric of America | Personagem - Himself |
| 2019 | Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America | Personagem - Self - Professor, Author and Filmmaker |
| 1997 | The View | Personagem - Self - Guest |
| 2005 | The Colbert Report | Sem informação |
| 2010 | Faces of America | Sem informação |
| 2012 | Finding Your Roots | Personagem - Self - Host |
| 1999 | Wonders of the African World | Personagem - Host |
| 2017 | Africa's Great Civilizations | Personagem - Self - Presenter |
| 2016 | Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise | Personagem - Self - Presenter |
| 2004 | America Beyond the Color Line | Personagem - Self - Host |
| 2024 | Gospel | Personagem - Self |
| 2022 | Making Black America | Sem informação |
| 2010 | América: A Saga dos EUA | Personagem - Self |
| 2019 | Reconstruction: America After the Civil War | Personagem - Self - Host |
| 1980 | Great Railway Journeys | Personagem - Self - Presenter |
| 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Personagem - Self |
| 2019 | Watchmen | Personagem - Skip Gates |
| 1989 | Os Simpsons | Personagem - Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (voice) |
| 2021 | The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song | Personagem - Self - Host |
| 2014 | The Tonight Show com Jimmy Fallon | Personagem - Self |
| 2025 | Great Migrations: A People on the Move | Personagem - Self - Host |
| 2019 | Today with Hoda & Jenna | Personagem - Self |
| 2013 | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | Personagem - Self |
| 2020 | America's Great Divide: From Obama to Trump | Personagem - Self (archive footage) (as Henry Louis Gates) |
| 2026 | Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History | Personagem - Self - Host |
