Events › Kanopy Klub: Within Our Gates (1920)

Kanopy is a free on-demand movie and documentary streaming website offered through the Boston Public Library. Watch Within Our Gates (1929) on Kanopy at any time, then join our virtual discussion on Thursday, February 13 at 7:00 PM.

About the film:

In this early silent film from pioneering director Oscar Micheaux, kindly Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer) takes a fundraising trip to Boston in hopes of raising money to keep a Southern school for impoverished black children open to the public. She then meets the warmhearted Dr. Vivian (Charles D. Lucas), who falls in love with Sylvia and travels with her back to the South. Their romance eventually leads to revelations about her family's past and her own mixed-race, European ancestry.

Music by Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky.

Running time: 1 hour 14 minute; NR

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