40 Days & 40 Nights

2019, 90 minutes

Despite violent opposition, a disabled reverend from North Carolina and a large group of unlikely leaders take on poverty and lead the largest campaign of civil disobedience in U.S. history.

Over the summer of 2018, Reverend William Barber, a Baptist preacher from Goldsboro, NC, joined tens of thousands of poor and working class people for the most expansive campaign of coordinated direct action in American history. “40 Days and 40 Nights” is an exclusive account of this time, and a lyrical glimpse at a country brimming with fear and possibility.

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