Black History Month 2013: Best black history movies

Black History Month 2013: Best black history movies


“The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman” (1974): Based on the novel by Ernest J. Gaines, this television movie was one of the first films to explore African American characters with true depth and sympathy. The film follows Jane Pittman as she recounts memories of being a young slave in the American South at the end of the Civil War to her views on the current civil rights movement when she is 110 years old.

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