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"Civil rights activist and US Representative John Lewis (D-Ga.) may have over 40 arrests under his belt (including five since he’s been in Congress), but the octogenarian is far from being done fighting for social justice. In the new documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble, filmmaker Dawn Porter explores Lewis’ resolute political beliefs in making necessary trouble against what is not right or fair. The film is a beautiful blend of interviews (with contemporary Dem leaders that Lewis has greatly influenced like Alexandria Oscasio-Cortez, the Clintons, Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, and Ilhan Omar) and superb archival footage from Lewis’ 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration.
Porter visits Lewis’ early years on his family farm in Alabama where he, as a young man, hoped to be a minister and tested his sermons on the chickens. Instead, by 1965, he was marching with Dr. King in Selma - even suffering a skull fracture from a police attack on Bloody Sunday. “I've been beaten bloody, tear-gassed, fighting for what's right for America. I've marched at Selma with Dr. King. Sometimes that's what it takes to move our country in the right direction,” says Lewis, who today is again focused on battling voter suppression across America."
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