Film

Free for All: The Public Library

20251h 23mDocumentary

Director: Dawn Logsdon
Year: 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.

Top cast

Laurie Anderson

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Deborah Caldwell-Stone

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Malkia Cyril

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Lolis Eric Elie

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Sylvia Flowers

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Geraldine Edwards Hollis

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Crosby Kemper

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JoNell Kennedy

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Jill Lepore

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David Nasaw

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John Palfrey

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Abigail Van Slyck

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Ethelene Whitmire

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Directed by

Dawn Logsdon

Written by

Dawn Logsdon, Elizabeth Finlayson

Produced by

Lucie Faulknor