上映于1920年的剧情《藩篱之内》，该片是由奥斯卡·米绍执导，伊芙琳·普雷尔,Flo Clements,詹姆斯·D·鲁芬,Jack Chenault,威廉·史密斯,Charles D. Lucas等主演，作为一部优秀的剧情，讲述了Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated negro woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished negro youths. Within Our Gates was created in response to The Birth of a Nation which depicted southern whites in need of the Ku Klux Klan to protect them from blood thirsty 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.