John Lewis: Good Trouble

John Lewis: Good Trouble

ReleaseJuly 3, 2020
RatingPG
Duration196 Minutes
DirectorsDawn Porter
Writers
StarringJohn Lewis, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Henry Louis Gates

Using interviews and rare archival footage, this film chronicles Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using present-day interviews with Lewis, now 79 years old, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinéma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.

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