Free for All: The Public Library

Dawn Logsdon
Lucie Faulknor

2025•83 min.•

United States of America

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.

Documentary

Cast

Laurie Anderson
Self
DC
Deborah Caldwell-Stone
Self
MC
Malkia Cyril
Self
LEE
Lolis Eric Elie
Self
SF
Sylvia Flowers
Self
GEH
Geraldine Edwards Hollis
Self
CK
Crosby Kemper
Self
JoNell Kennedy
Self
JL
Jill Lepore
Self
DN
David Nasaw
Self
JP
John Palfrey
Self
AVS
Abigail Van Slyck
Self
EW
Ethelene Whitmire
Self

Crew

ES
Ellen Schneider
Production
Stanley Nelson
Production
VF
Vicente Franco
Camera
LF
Lucie Faulknor
Production
E"R
Eric "Ash" Risher
Editing
MS
Marcia Smith
Production
DL
Dawn Logsdon
Directing
EM
Ellie McCutcheon
Production
DS
Debra Schaffner
Editing
EF
Elizabeth Finlayson
Editing
LF
Lucie Faulknor
Directing
DL
Dawn Logsdon
Writing
EF
Elizabeth Finlayson
Writing
RH
Reed Harkness
Camera