Free for All: The Public Library
Documentary
Overview
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.
Dawn Logsdon Director
Dawn Logsdon Writer
Elizabeth Finlayson Writer
Top Billed 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
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