Independent Lens
Season 5 Episode 15 - A Place of Our Oen
6.5 ?
1999
Documentary
"Black Resort Communities and the African American Dream" Stanley Nelson is a third-generation, upper middle-class African American who spent the past 40 summers in Oak Bluffs, an affluent African-American resort community on Martha's Vineyard. Building on personal stories of summers past, this film explores the tightly-knit world of black professionals who created a refuge to call their own.
Episodes in Season 5
1
Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz
60 min
2
Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'
60 min
3
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
60 min
4
A Wedding in Ramallah
60 min
5
Be Good, Smile Pretty
60 min
6
Livermore
60 min
7
Eroica!
60 min
8
Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson
60 min
9
Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad
60 min
10
Man Bites Shorts
60 min
11
Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story
60 min
12
Life Matters
60 min
13
Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing
60 min
14
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
60 min
15
A Place of Our Oen
60 min
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60 min
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60 min
19
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20
Love Inventory
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21
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22
The Weather Underground
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23
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24
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Death of a Shaman
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26
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27
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28
The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out
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