(Directed by Dawn Porter, 2020, 96 min.)
Interviews and rare archival footage chronicle John Lewis’s 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform, and immigration. Streaming through August 30

Virtual Cinema takes you on a journey through the life of late Civil Rights icon John Lewis.

Declared “essential viewing” by Forbes, the new film John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles the late Georgia congressman’s more than 60 years of social activism and legislative action on voting rights, gun control, health-care reform, and immigration. Lewis’s extraordinary story is told through rare archival footage and interviews about his childhood, his family, and his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. Lewis died on July 17, 2020, at the age of 80, having served 17 terms in the House of Representatives and remaining committed to his pursuit of progressive social movements and human rights in the United States. Presented as part of the film series accompanying the exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power.

• John Lewis: Good Trouble WATCH HERE (streaming through August 30) Your purchase ($12) supports the MFAH and provides access to the film for 3 days. See the Trailer