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Film Birmingham Calendar

Film Birmingham's new Film Calendar is a dedicated site to help highlight all of the great independent screenings and cinema events happening around our area, both within Birmingham as well as around Jefferson County. A one stop shop for all of your cinephile needs, we aim to help people find out about both unique film events, as well as networking and workshop opportunities for those interested in learning more about the industry as a whole. Have an event you'd like to be featured? Be sure to sign up for a Birmingham365 account and submit all of the relevant information so we can help get the word out about it for you!

John Lewis: Good Trouble (2020) [FREE!]

Presented by Sidewalk Film Festival + Center at Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema, Birmingham

June 19, 2026

Using interviews and rare archival footage, John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles Lewis’ 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, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily...

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Using interviews and rare archival footage, John Lewis: Good Trouble chronicles Lewis’ 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, Porter explores his childhood experiences, his inspiring family and his fateful meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957. In addition to her interviews with Lewis and his family, Porter’s primarily cinéma verité film also includes interviews with political leaders, Congressional colleagues, and other people who figure prominently in his life.

Celebrate Juneteenth at Sidewalk with this free screening.

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Fri, Jun 19 @ 4:45 pm Fri, Jun 19 @ 9:45 pm

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