Independent Lens · SEASON 26

Free For All: The Public Library

Episode 16 · 2025-04-29

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Episode overview

Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea 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.

84 minutes

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