The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974)

During the days of the civil rights movement, reporters visit Cicely Tyson’s 110 year old title character to get her perspective on events. Cicely recounts from the history of her life, from her days as a slave and later sharecropping and the struggle for education advancement for people like her. It’s a TV movie, so the quality is a bit shoddy and it really jumps through all but a handful of events of the woman’s exceptionally long life. Tyson gives a great performance, convincingly aging herself almost 100 years through the film. The makeup department did a noteworthy job adding to extra believability to her aging.