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A Place of Our Own

2004

54 minutes

Documentary

Overview

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.

Top Cast

Stanley Nelson headshot

Stanley Nelson

Self - Narrator (voice)

Cecelia Antoinette headshot

Cecelia Antoinette

Storyteller

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. headshot

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Self (as Henry Louis Gates)

Lani Guinier headshot

Lani Guinier

Self

Manning Marable headshot

Manning Marable

Self

Stanley Nelson Sr. headshot

Stanley Nelson Sr.

Self

Liel Nelson headshot

Liel Nelson

Self (archive footage)

Isabel Powell headshot

Isabel Powell

Self