--- title: Within Our Gates (1920): 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades description: Find out why Within Our Gates (1920) was selected for the list canonical: https://time.com/collections/100-best-movies/6293479/within-our-gates-1920/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2023-07-26T11:32:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-05T06:58:43.197Z og:title: 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades: Within Our Gates (1920) og:description: Find out why Within Our Gates (1920) is on the list og:url: https://time.com/collections/100-best-movies/6293479/within-our-gates-1920/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8de46c10b4df32b0/698a3ee54ee262f22731b966/top-100-movies-1920s-gates.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades: Within Our Gates (1920) og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades: Within Our Gates (1920) twitter:description: Find out why Within Our Gates (1920) is on the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8de46c10b4df32b0/698a3ee54ee262f22731b966/top-100-movies-1920s-gates.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Jul 26, 2023 # _Within Our Gates_ (1920) > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Stephanie Zacharek](https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/) ## Stephanie Zacharek Film Critic  Evelyn Preer and Jack Chenault in Within Our Gates. Evelyn Preer and Jack Chenault in Within Our Gates. Everett Collection The story of writer, producer, and director Oscar Micheaux is that of a ghost industry that might have been—in other words, an American film industry with plenty of latitude, opportunity and breathing space for filmmakers who weren’t primarily white. From the teens to the early 1950s, there was a small but thriving industry of films made primarily for Black audiences, commonly called race films. Micheaux was one of the genre’s most significant figures, and _Within Our Gates_ stands both as a model of American film melodrama and an expression of the mores and attitudes in its day, in terms of how Black Americans saw themselves—as opposed to how they were seen by whites at the time. Sylvia Landry (Evelyn Preer) is a young woman from the South visiting her Northern cousin, Alma (Flo Clements), who also, as it turns out, is secretly in love with Sylvia’s fiancé. That personal drama becomes entwined with a greater one: after Alma engineers the dissolution of Sylvia’s engagement, Sylvia returns to the South and becomes deeply involved with a school striving to provide an education for underserved Black children. Her efforts to raise money for the beleaguered school—and her own complex backstory—form a kind of archway for Micheaux to discuss significant social events of the day, including [the Great Migration](https://time.com/3857576/girls-great-migration/) and the murderous persistence of the [Ku Klux Klan](https://time.com/4990253/kkk-white-nationalists-history/). Micheaux’s sturdy throughline is that education would cut a path forward for Black Americans. To watch _Within Our Gates_ today is to see how far we _haven’t_ come, and to mourn the country we are still waiting to become. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-movies/6293479/within-our-gates-1920/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-movies/6293479/within-our-gates-1920/"},"headline":"Within Our Gates (1920)","datePublished":"2023-07-26T11:32:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-05T06:58:43.197Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-movies/6293479/within-our-gates-1920/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8de46c10b4df32b0/698a3ee54ee262f22731b966/top-100-movies-1920s-gates.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Stephanie Zacharek","jobTitle":"Film Critic","url":"https://time.com/author/stephanie-zacharek/"}],"creator":"Stephanie Zacharek","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8de46c10b4df32b0/698a3ee54ee262f22731b966/top-100-movies-1920s-gates.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-movies/","name":"The 100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/100-best-movies/6293479/within-our-gates-1920/","name":"Within Our Gates (1920)"}}]}] ```