John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020)
Production Company Participant Media, Magnolia Films and CNN Films
Distribution Company Amazon Prime
Director Dawn Porter
Executive Producer Diane Weyermann
Assistant to Executive Producer India Witkin
Using interviews and rare archival footage, this CNN Films' documentary chronicles the late Congressman's 60-plus years of social activism and legislative action on civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. Director Dawn Porter explores Lewis' childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957.
Nominated for Outstanding Historical Documentary at the 2021 Emmy Awards & Winner of Critics Choice Documentary Awards