John Lewis
Good Trouble
DVD - 2020 | Widescreen version
Using interviews and rare archival footage, this chronicles Lewis's 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 80 years old, it explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family, and his meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. It also includes interviews with political leaders, colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.
Publisher:
[Los Angeles, California] : Magnolia Home Entertainment, [2020]
Edition:
Widescreen version
Copyright Date:
©2020
Branch Call Number:
328.73092 JOH
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (approximately 97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
digital,optical,surround,Dolby Digital 5.1
laser optical,NTSC
video file,DVD video,region 1
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Alternative Title:
Good trouble



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This documentary is an excellent account of the Civil Rights leader who died in July 2020. Expertly told with great and vivid archival footage and lots of interviews of both Lewis himself as well as his friends and colleagues, this is a must see. It makes one contemplate anew Lewis’s call to make... Read More »
A new doc about the beloved Civil Rights leader, politician, and humanitarian. He served 17 terms in the U.S. House of Representative until his recent death. Director Dawn Porter shows plenty of wonderful interviews with Lewis, his family, friends, and those who worked with him. There is also arc... Read More »
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Add a CommentEnjoyable, but more about recent history than later.