Within Our Gates

Within Our Gates is the earliest surviving feature by legendary pioneering filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. Created as a response to The Birth Of A Nation, which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from bloodthirsty blacks, Micheaux shows the reality of Dixie racism in 1920, where a black man could be lynched for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His bold feature-length productions, which asserted an educated black man's point of view and featured black stars and all-black casts, continued for three decades and included dramas, comedies, westerns and musicals.

Upplagd i sortimentet: 6 april, 2017