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A Place of Our Own

2004· 0h 54m

Documentary

Directed by Stanley Nelson

9.0/ 10

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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.

Cast

Stanley Nelson

Stanley Nelson

Self - Narrator (voice)

Cecelia Antoinette

Cecelia Antoinette

Storyteller

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Self (as Henry Louis Gates)

Lani Guinier

Self

Manning Marable

Self

Stanley Nelson Sr.

Self

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