The Symbol of the Unconquered 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. Eve Mason is a "white-skinned" African American who inherits a large amount of land after the
Rose of the Alley Rose of the Alley Rose of the Alley is a 1916 silent crime drama film directed by Charles Horan. This film is extant at George Eastman House, Rochester New York. Like many American films of the time, "Rose of the Alley" was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. The Chicago Board of Censors ordered cut scenes from Reel 1 of a shooting, from Reel 2 the signaling from man on roof to man on street, shooting from the roof, and a vision of a gun fight in a saloon, and from Reel 5 fourteen gun fight