Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Filmography
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Not Black Enough
(2017)This insightful documentary explores class warfare in the African-American community, and who gets to define what it means to be black.

13th
(2016)In this thought-provoking documentary, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.

Birth of a Movement
(2017)In 1915, civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter waged a battle against D.W. Griffith's notoriously Ku Klux Klan-friendly blockbuster The Birth of a Nation, which unleashed a fight still raging today about race relations and representation, and the power and influence of Hollywood. Includes interviews with Spike Lee, Reginald Hudlin, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and DJ Spooky.

Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches
(2022)Famed anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass' words about racial injustice are brought to life in this documentary.