The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

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Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney. A 110-year-old African-American woman recalls her life as a slave, her role in the Civil War and her views on the 1960s civil rights movement. 1974/color/110 min/NR/EP.
This 1973 television movie about 110 years of American history as seen through the eyes of a black woman from Louisiana (Cicely Tyson) is a terrific achievement, a window onto racism from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Tyson gives a career performance as the title character, whose personal life is inextricably woven into the fabric of the African American struggle for equality. A mixture of the sentimental and the unflinching, this is the kind of educational experience that fully engages a viewer. --Tom Keogh