Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (110 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
Playing Time |
014938 |
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In Process Record. |
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Title from title frames. |
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Film |
Event |
Originally produced by Shout Factory in 1974. |
Summary |
Beginning during the racial turmoil of 1960s Louisiana, 110-year-old ex-slave Jane Pittman (Cicely Tyson) grants an interview to a persistent journalist and relates the remarkable story of her life. Orphaned early, she toils on a plantation until a chance meeting with a white Union soldier named Brown changes her outlook. Jane's emancipation marks only the beginning of an arduous and heartbreaking odyssey, framed by the horrors of slavery and the justice of the civil rights movement.. This Television adaptation on the famous novel won 9 Emmy Awards.. |
System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
Subject |
Motion pictures.
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Genre |
Feature films
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Added Author |
Shout Factory (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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Music No. |
1226036 Kanopy |
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