Oldest Living Confederate Woman Tells All (1994)

Closing in on her 99th birthday, Anne Bancroft shares the details of her life as a child bride married to former Confederate soldier Donald Sutherland. Perhaps because she’s set to age many years through the miniseries, a late 20s Diane Lane unconvincingly portrays the woman as a teenager, but has a better feel for the role as the character ages and faces many hardships. The scope of the film reminds me of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman , which both feature Cicely Tyson, except the build up of the Civil Rights Movement in that other film is exchanged for the rantings of an aged defender of Southern mythology.