The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

9/27/2026

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 title role here. She's managed to reach the ripe old age of 110 and has agreed to give an interview to journalist "Quentin" (Michael Murphy). Now just how would she even know she is that old? There's not going to be any documentation... Well, what she does have are memories and stretching back before the abolition of slavery, she now regales us with an history of her life intertwined with an history of her nation. From her emancipation as a young girl in the 1860s through her fi