The Symbol of the Unconquered
The Symbol of the Unconquered( also known as The Wilderness Trail) is a 1920 silent" race film" drama produced, written and directed by Oscar Micheaux.
It is Micheaux's fourth feature- length film and along with" Within Our Gates" is among his earliest surviving works.
" The Symbol of the Unconquered" was made at Fort Lee, New Jersey, and released by Micheaux on November 29, 1920.
A print of the film is extant at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Uncle Jasper's Will
Uncle Jasper's Will( also released as Jasper Landry's Will) is a 1922 race film directed, produced and written by Oscar Micheaux.
The film is a drama about the contents of a last will and testament left behind by an African- American sharecropper who was lynched after being falsely accused of the murder of a white plantation owner.
The film was intended as a sequel to Micheaux ’s landmark feature" Within Our Gates"( 1920).
Manny Coto
Manuel Hector" Manny" Coto( born June 10, 1961) is a Cuban- American writer, director and producer of films and television programs.
Coto was the executive producer and showrunner of in its final season, and executive producer of four seasons of" 24".
He was an executive producer and writer for the fifth season of the Showtime TV series" Dexter".
List of highest-grossing Mexican films
The following is a list of the highest- grossing films within the Mexican cinema industry.
Within Our Gates
Within Our Gates is a 1920 American silent film by the director Oscar Micheaux that portrays the contemporary racial situation in the United States during the early twentieth century, the years of Jim Crow, the revival of the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration of blacks to cities of the North and Midwest, and the emergence of the" New Negro".
It was part of a genre called race films.
The plot features an African- American woman who goes North in an effort to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South for poor black children.
Her romance with a black doctor eventually leads to revelations about her family's past and her own mixed- race, European ancestry.
The film portrays racial violence under white supremacy, and the lynching of black people.
Produced, written and directed by Micheaux, it is the oldest known surviving film made by an African- American director.
List of films featuring fictional films
A body of films feature fictional films as part of their narrative.
These are also called films within films.
Oscar Micheaux
Oscar Devereaux Micheaux( January 2, 1884 – March 25, 1951) was an African- American author, film director and independent producer of more than 44 films.
Although the short- lived Lincoln Motion Picture Company was the first movie company owned and controlled by black filmmakers, Micheaux is regarded as the first major African- American feature filmmaker, a prominent producer of race film, and has been described as" the most successful African- American filmmaker of the first half of the 20th century".
He produced both silent films and sound films when the industry changed to incorporate speaking actors.
Within Our Gates (1915 film)
Within Our Gates, also known as Deeds that Won Gallipoli, is a 1915 Australian silent film about Australia's fight with the German Empire and the Ottoman Empire during World War I, including the landing at Gaba Tepe during the Gallipoli Campaign.
The story was partly based on a play" The Man Who Stayed at Home".
It is considered a lost film.
Huns Within Our Gates
Huns within our gates( 1918) is a silent World War I propaganda film, starring Derwent Hall Caine and Valda Valkyrien.
Produced by the Arrow Film Corporation.
The cast, characters and plot were used in The Crusher( 1917).
After being re-edited the film was re-released as" Commercial Pirates" in March 1919.
Also known as" The Hearts of Men".
Playroom (film)
Playroom is a 1990 American horror film directed by Manny Coto in his directorial debut.
The film stars Lisa Aliff, Aron Eisenberg, Christopher McDonald, and Vincent Schiavelli.
The cinematographer was James L. Carter and the production designer was Vicky Jenson, who later went on to direct" Shrek".

Question: Are the directors of films Within Our Gates and Playroom (Film) both from the same country?
Answer: yes