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Within Our Gates (1920)

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.

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Greg W 09 May 2016

Incredibly honorable for its stance for African Americans in its time, though it can be extremely on-the-nose with it.

MJS M 08 Aug 2009

This is a film that will forever be famous for the fact that it is the oldest surviving film directed by an African American. It will forever be shown in retrospectives of African American cinema and as a counterpoint to D.W. Griffen?s The Birth of a Nation. It is probably destined to be more of a historical artifact than as a work of art, but is that such a bad thing? I?ve always been fascinated by history and seeing this film?s context is more than interesting enough to justify a two hour watch. But all this isn?t to say that this is a bad movie in and of itself. It?s a perfectly competent movie from a filmmaking perspective, and while the story is a bit preachy I think that?s probably fair enough, when you?re fighting against the likes of The Birth of a Nation you sort of need to shout.

Rani V 02 Jan 2009

This movie was just really good and really interesting. There is just so much going on. I mean of course it is interesting historically and sociologically, and the more you contextualize it and place it historically the more interesting it really becomes. There are a number of scenes that really just stop you in your tracks. The scene in "old Ned's" church and one of the last scenes that cuts back and forth between the lynching of the heroines family and her being attacked are two that really stood out. It is hard to follow at times and some loose ends that aren't fully resolved but I am not sure if some of that wasn't because parts of the print was lost. Either way I didn't really mind, I still found myself being drawn in completely. In a way its more like short vignettes hung on a basic plot to drive the movie forward and if you view it with that in mind the holes in the story become really unimportant.

Jorge M 01 Oct 2008

Wonderfully advanced piece of storytelling and film editing for its time. Viewed by many to be the antithesis of D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, this film should be given more praise based on its own artistic merit. The only negative comment I can make about this film is that the pacing is inconsistent and leads to a dragging feeling for much of the last half of the film, but this opinion may be a direct result of my being a product of a generation of television & film that bombards its viewers with fast cuts and camera movements...

David L 25 Dec 2018

Within Our Gates is interestingly directed by Oscar Micheaux due to quick editing, the use of a lot of intertitles and a very urgent tone to it. The film is flawed owing to weaker acting and too many characters, but it's still very well plotted with a particularly interesting twist ending and of course it's a very important movie for being the oldest surviving film about black people and directed by a black director.