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Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent race drama film produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux.
A black woman tries to save a school for black children in the South from closing, while facing racism and a dark past. This film was a response to The Birth of a Nation and is the oldest surviving feature by a black director.
- (3.7K)
- Drama, Romance
- Oscar Micheaux
- 1920-01-12
Dec 11, 2017 · Within Our Gates. For more information and to download this film, please visit https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00046435/ Oscar Micheaux wrote, produced and directed this groundbreaking motion...
- 80 min
- 149.4K
- Library of Congress
Apr 27, 2022 · This is a fully high definition copy of Oscar Micheaux's race film, starring Evelyn Preer and Floy Clements. I do not own the rights to film, nor am I profiting from it. The picture is in the ...
- 74 min
- 4.3K
- André Bourbeau
Jan 28, 2016 · Within Our Gates. By Richard Brody. January 28, 2016. Oscar Micheaux’s bold, forceful melodrama, from 1919—the oldest surviving feature by a black American director—unfolds the vast...
- Condé Nast
Feb 1, 2021 · Evelyn Preer (Georgia Rose, Ladies of the Big House) stars as Sylvia Landry, an educated black woman who wants to help a school for impoverished black children.
- 77 min
- 9.6K
- The Film Detective
Southern negro Sylvia Landry visits her cousin Alma in the north, where there is less racial prejudice than in her home town of Piney Woods in the deep south, and is anxiously awaiting her fiancé, Conrad.
