Product Details

• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Unapix / a-Pix Ent.
• VHS Release Date: March 25, 2000
• Run Time: 79 minutes
• ASIN: 6303523102
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #187,133 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

From the back cover

Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates is the earliest surviving feature directed by an African American. However, this startling film, unseen for 75 years, is far more than a historic curiosity. The 1993 Library of Congress inter-title restoration reveals it as passionate social history, confronting racism head-on through a story of a young African American woman who seeks a Northern white patron for a Southern school for black children. The scenes of lynching and attempted white-on-black rape may be a response to D.W. Griffith's The Birth of A Nation and remains shocking to this day.