Within Our Gates

"Within our Gates" is sometimes considered to be Black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux's response to D.W. Griffith’s controversial 1915 “Birth of a Nation.” Micheaux wrote, directed, and produced the silent film which portrays the contemporary racial injustice in the United States during the Jim Crow years, and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The film was heavily censored upon release in 1920 due to its raw portrayal of white supremacy and interracial sexual violence. It is the oldest surviving film by a Black film director. Once thought to be lost, the Library of Congress Motion Picture Conservation Center restored the film from a single print discovered in Spain.PT1H20M
Oscar Micheaux
Within Our Gates"Within Our Gates"

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The Last Picture House