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Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent race drama film produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux.
A drama about racial prejudice and education in the American South, directed and written by Oscar Micheaux, a black filmmaker. The film features a flashback scene of a lynching and a rape, and explores the contrast between northern and southern attitudes towards blacks.
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- Drama, Romance
- Oscar Micheaux
- 1920-01-12
Dec 18, 2011 · Within Our Gates (1920) - Oscar Micheaux Silent Film. Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for...
- 77 min
- 168.2K
- The Riverbends Channel
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.
Jan 28, 2016 · Oscar Micheaux’s bold, forceful melodrama, from 1919—the oldest surviving feature by a black American director—unfolds the vast political dimensions of intimate romantic crises.
- Condé Nast
Apr 27, 2022 · Within Our Gates (Micheaux, 1920) — 1080p. 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...
- 74 min
- 3.7K
- André Bourbeau
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Feb 23, 2017 · Within Our Gates was Oscar Micheaux’s response to a racist classic. Between film corrosion and discrimination, a full 80 percent of silent movies made by African-Americans have been...
