VIDEO: John Legend and Common Perform 'Glory' on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge

On January 18, 2015, Common and John Legend performed "Glory" on The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ava DuVernay's new film SELMA. Watch the full performance below, plus get an inside look from ET!

Directed by DuVernay and starring David Oyelowo as Martin Luther King Jr., SELMA earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Song for "Glory" by Common and John Legend, and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

The film also stars Tom Wilkinson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alessandro Nivola, Giovanni Ribisi, Common, Carmen Ejogo, Lorraine Toussaint, with Tim Roth and Oprah Winfrey as 'Annie Lee Cooper.'

Paramount Pictures, Pathé, and Harpo Films present SELMA. Produced by Christian Colson, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Oprah Winfrey, the film is executive produced by Brad Pitt, Cameron McCracken, Diarmuid McKeown, Nik Bower, Ava DuVernay, Paul Garnes and Nan Morales. The film is written by Paul Webb.

SELMA, in theaters nationwide, is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director DuVernay's SELMA tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.

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