Free for All: The Public Library (2025)
The story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea of a public library happen. From the pioneering women behind the "Free Library Movement" to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.
- Date of release
- 2025-04-29
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Dawn Logsdon
Casting
- Laurie Anderson — Self
- Deborah Caldwell-Stone — Self
- Malkia Cyril — Self
- Lolis Eric Elie — Self
- Sylvia Flowers — Self
- Geraldine Edwards Hollis — Self
- Crosby Kemper — Self
- JoNell Kennedy — Self
- Jill Lepore — Self
- David Nasaw — Self
- John Palfrey — Self
- Abigail Van Slyck — Self
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