Within Our Gates (1920 film) - Directed by Oscar Micheaux - Full Movie

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

Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and the emergence of the "New Negro". It was part of a genre called race films.

Directed by: Oscar Micheaux
Written by: Oscar Micheaux
Produced by: Oscar Micheaux
Starring: Evelyn Preer, Floy Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault, William Smith, Charles D. Lucas
Music by: Philip Carli
Distributed by: Micheaux Book & Film Company
Release date: January 12, 1920
Running time: 79 minutes
Country: United States
Language: Silent (English intertitles)