A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School (2009)

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School: Directed by Dave Davidson. With Ruby Dee. For a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The Bordentown School was an educational utopia. An incubator for black pride and intellect, it taught values, discipline, and life skills to generations of black children. This is the story of that remarkable school, as told by Bordentown alumni, historians, and remarkable archival footage. It is also the story of black education in America across three centuries, presenting a nuanced, rarely seen portrait of a separate black space; and a much-needed preface to the growing national discussion about historically black institutions and their role in nurturing identity and accomplishment. What was lost and what was gained in the march toward equality?

“This documentary is everything a nuanced documentary should be.nToo often we view and judge by our own current sensibilities. An institution such as Bordentown at the time of outright segregation, Jim Crow, Integration and today can be seen out of context with profoundly different lenses. u0026quot;A place out of Timeu0026quot; addresses those points of view in an intelligent and balanced way.”