John Lewis: Good Trouble

Using present-day interviews and rare archival footage, John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles Lewis’s 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform, and immigration. Through extensive discussion with Lewis, now 80, director Dawn Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and a fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957 that led him on a historic journey that spans Freedom Rides in 1961 to the Black Lives Matter movement today. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinema verité film also includes encounters with political leaders, congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his Lewis’s life. (96 mins., digital video) 
Closed Captioning available

Immediately following the feature, there will be a prerecorded discussion between Representative Lewis and Oprah Winfrey, filmed last month and being made available exclusively for virtual cinema and in-theater engagements of the film. This is a wide-ranging, informal, 16-minute conversation that’s a perfect follow-up to the documentary and could not be more relevant.

On July 9 all ticket-buyers are invited to stream a live panel discussion presented by the Freedom Rides Museum of Montgomery, Alabama, featuring Freedom Riders Dr. Bernard Lafayette and Dr. Rip Patton in conversation with director Dawn Porter. Presented in partnership with the Capri Theater, the live panel begins at 7:30 PM EST / 4:30 PM PST and will also be archived to watch afterward.

More about the film

• Feature: "John Lewis to Black Lives Matter protesters: 'Give until you cannot give any more'," Washington Post
• Interview: "The Long View: John Lewis, congressman and civil-rights legend, will never lose hope," New York Magazine