John Lewis: Good Trouble
Sometimes change calls for a little trouble.
Using interviews and rare archival footage, JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE chronicles John Robert Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Using past interviews with Lewis, who passed in 2020, 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.
Director
Dawn Porter
Producer
Erika Alexander, Ben Arnon, Laura Michalchyshyn, and Dawn Porter
Runtime
96 minutes
Rights Represented
Educational Rights
Captions Available
English
Language
English
Press
“Excellent. A joyful, galvanizing portrait of a life radically and fully lived.”
- Entertainment Weekly
“It’s hard to imagine someone whose legacy would warrant a more urgent cinematic tribute than John Lewis, a true American civil rights icon. Since his is the kind of guidance and bravery we as a nation urgently crave, you can hardly go wrong with watching “John Lewis: Good Trouble” these days to remember what true leadership looks like.”
- Variety
“Absorbing. He’s a living testament to the value of staying in the battle as long as it rages on.”
- IndieWire
“Makes an urgent argument: that a new wave of voter suppression has threatened the rights that Lewis labored to secure.”
- The New York Times
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