Within Our Gates (1920)
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This film is one of the earliest surviving examples of a film by an African American filmmaker. Sylvia Landry is engaged to a black soldier, but her rival Alma Pritchard arranges for him to catch Sylvia in an innocent but compromising situation. No longer engaged, she moves to the South to work as a teacher in an all-black school. When the school has financial problems, she returns to Boston to raise money for it. There, she is befriended by a white doctor, Dr. Vivian, who falls in love with
Jan 12, 1920 Wide
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Though the narrative structure is somewhat choppy, director Oscar Micheaux otherwise demonstrates mastery of the silent form, using supple compositions and careful editing to amplify the characters' emotions in a manner that makes sound seem superfluous.
Top CriticWithin Our Gates is full of surprises, following a multitude of characters and plotlines without settling into predictable allegiances.
Micheaux's films are about murder, racial injustice, and lynchings.
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- Within Our Gates (1920) (DE)
- Within Our Gates (1920) (UK)
