Miss Jane Pittman is celebrating her 110th birthday. As the civil rights movement heats up, Miss Jane, a former slave, recounts her memories of the black experience from picking potatoes on a southern plantation to fetching water for soldiers in the Civil War to her views on the current and turbulent equal rights movement.
Publisher:[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by VCI Entertainment, 2002.
General Note: Videorecording.For specific features see interactive menu.Originally produced as a television movie in 1973.Based on the novel of the same title by Ernest J. Gaines.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Director of photography, James Crabe ; music, Fred Karlin.
Participant or Performer Note: Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney, Richard A. Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Michael Murphy, Odetta, Thalmus Rasulala.