In New Documentary, Congressman John Lewis Reminds Us There Are Still Many More Rivers to Cross

This year marked the 55th anniversary of the most famous moment of Georgia congressman John Lewis’ life: Bloody Sunday.

Lewis, 80, is the last of the “Big Six” leaders of the civil rights movement, best known as the man in a trench coat and backpack who was on the front lines of the March 7, 1965, march for voting rights in Selma, Alabama, that ended with police violence at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Lewis was beaten about the head so bad that he had to be hospitalized.

“I thought I was going to die on that bridge,” he recalled in John Lewis: Good Trouble, a new documentary from Dawn Porter, available to stream and on video on demand on Friday.

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