| Movie | 1987 | Citizen Steve | Self - Businessman | |
| Movie | 2023 | Lab Leak Liars: How China and Authorities Deceived Us | Self | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires | Self - Co-Founder, Microsoft | |
| Movie | 2021 | Monopoly: Who Owns the World? | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2001 | Leben nach Microsoft | himself | |
| Movie | 2022 | Icahn: The Restless Billionaire | Self | |
| Movie | 2007 | All Things Digital: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates | Himself | |
| Movie | 1995 | Microsoft Judgment Day: Doom | William J. Blazkowicz III (Doom Slayer) | |
| Movie | 2016 | Meet the Donors: Does Money Talk? | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2011 | Bill Gates: How a Geek Changed the World | himself | |
| Movie | 2023 | Time Bomb Y2K | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2015 | Unity | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2005 | A Brief History of the PC | Self | |
| Movie | 2005 | Live 8 | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Aces & Knaves | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | New World Order: Communism by the Backdoor | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 1992 | Microsoft: How to Succeed in Business with Workgroup Computing | Self | |
| Movie | 2017 | Becoming Warren Buffett | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2006 | Buffett and Gates Go Back to School | Himself | |
| Movie | 2012 | Das Milliardenversprechen | Himself | |
| Movie | 2012 | Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2010 | Freakonomics | Himself | |
| Movie | 2003 | Surplus: Terrorized Into Being Consumers | Self | |
| Movie | 2020 | One World: Together at Home | Self | |
| Movie | 2018 | trustWHO | Self (archive footage) | |
| Movie | 2020 | Toilettes sans tabou | Bill Gates | |
| Movie | 2020 | Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself | Self - audience member (uncredited) | |
| Movie | 2020 | Pandemic: The People, The Conspiracy, The Journey | | |
| Movie | 2021 | Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story | Self | |
| Movie | 2021 | Tech Billionaires: Bill Gates | Himself | |
| Movie | 2014 | Top Spin | Self - CEO, Microsoft | |
| Movie | 2024 | AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special | Self | |
| Movie | 1994 | Visions of Heaven and Hell | Self | |
| TV Show | 1968 | 60 Minutes | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Retro Tech | Self - Environmentalist & Philanthropist | 1 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Maischberger | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | The Daily Show | Self | 4 |
| TV Show | 2023 | Joko Winterscheidt Presents: The World's Most Dangerous Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Sabine Christiansen | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2014 | Late Night with Seth Meyers | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1979 | CBS News Sunday Morning | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1993 | Frasier | Bill Gates | 1 |
| TV Show | 2014 | Face to Face | Himself | 1 |
| TV Show | 2021 | Power On: The Story of Xbox | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 5 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet | Himself (co-founder, Microsoft) | 3 |
| TV Show | 2007 | The Big Bang Theory | Bill Gates | 1 |
| TV Show | 2017 | Trump: An American Dream | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1948 | Bambi-Verleihung | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2019 | Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates | Self | 3 |
| TV Show | 2015 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert | Self | 4 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Axios | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Explained | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2018 | Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Q&A | Self - Panellist | 1 |
| TV Show | 2014 | Silicon Valley | Bill Gates | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | maybrit illner | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Joe Montana: Cool Under Pressure | Self (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2020 | Coronavirus, Explained | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Our Best | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2024 | What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates | Self | 5 |
| TV Show | 2018 | My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Im Dialog | self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2014 | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2000 | Click | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1988 | Countryfile | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1995 | Kulturzeit | Self (archive footage) | 2 |
