Independent Lens · SEASON 5
A Place of Our Oen
Episode 15
- Documentary
Episode overview
"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.
60 minutes
Season 5 episodes
1. Worst Possible Illusion: The Curiosity Cabinet of Vik Muniz2003-10-14
2. Foto-Novelas 2: `Junkyard Saints' and `Broken Sky'2003-10-21
3. Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America2003-10-28
4. A Wedding in Ramallah2003-11-04
5. Be Good, Smile Pretty2003-11-11
6. Livermore2003-11-25
7. Eroica!2003-12-09
8. Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson2003-12-16
9. Get the Fire! Young Mormon Missionaries Abroad2003-12-23
10. Man Bites Shorts2003-12-30
11. Make 'Em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers' Story2004-01-13
12. Life Matters2004-01-20
13. Why Can't We Be a Family Again?; Downpour Resurfacing2004-01-27
14. Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property2004-02-10
15. A Place of Our Oen
16. Jimmy Scott: If You Only Knew2004-02-24
17. Sentencing the Victim2004-03-02
18. T-Shirt Travels2004-03-23
19. Every Child Is Born a Poet: The Life and Work of Piri Thomas2004-03-30
20. Love Inventory2004-04-13
21. Ram Dass: Fierce Grace2004-04-20
22. The Weather Underground2004-04-27
23. One Night at the Grand Star; Double Exposure2004-05-04
24. Refugee2004-05-11
25. Death of a Shaman2004-05-27
26. Cosmopolitan2004-06-01
27. Sumo East and West2004-06-08
28. The Amasong Chorus: Singing Out2004-06-15
