Within Our Gates (1920)
Oscar Micheaux
DramaSilent
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About
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find.
The oldest surviving film from an African-American director, Within Our Gates follows a young woman as she learns about her family history and what it means to be a black woman in 1920's America. The picture was thought of as a minor hit on release, and modern reviews have especially found much to praise from the film.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Silent films
- Licence or status
- Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
- Credit
- Oscar Micheaux
- Language
- English
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Teens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed