A Place of Our Own

9.0 2004 54 min
Documentary

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson's look back at the 40 years he spent summering at Oak Bluffs, a black-oriented resort community on Martha's Vineyard.

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Director
Stanley Nelson
Writers
Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith

Cast

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Stanley Nelson Self - Narrator (voice)
Cecelia Antoinette Storyteller
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Self (as Henry Louis Gates)
Lani Guinier Self
Manning Marable Self
Stanley Nelson Sr. Self
Liel Nelson Self (archive footage)
Isabel Powell Self

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