The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. brt green #87, 88 [videorecording] / Tomorrow Entertainment, Inc. ; produced by Robert W. Christiansen and Rick Rosenberg ; directed by John Korty ; teleplay by Tracy Keenan Wynn.
Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines. Features: making of the film documentary, the writing of the book documentary, Oral story tellin' tradition documentary, Emmy award clips, interactive menus, scene access. Cicely Tyson, Richard A. Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Michael Murphy, Roy Poole. Originally broadcast on television in 1973.
Summary:
The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten.
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