Free for All: The Public Library
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.
Production
Serendipity Films
Language
EN
Status
Released
Release Date
Trailers & Videos
Cast
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
Ethelene Whitmire
Self
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