The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Director: John Korty
Producer: Robert W. Christiansen, Rick Rosenberg, Philip Barry Jr.
Overview
In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
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7.0CinemaSerf
September 27, 2026
I'm usually quite sceptical when it comes to television movies about history. They often spend way too much time on the costumes and ensuring the cameras get everywhere all at once and sacrifice the writing and the acting in the process. That cannot be said of the really characterful effort from Cicely Tyson in the tit…