Free for All: The Public Library

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FREE FOR ALL the story of how a simple idea shaped a nation, and the quiet revolutionaries who made it happen

It’s America’s most beloved, yet most endangered, public institution. The public library’s founding principle is breathtaking: build a place where anyone can enter, free of charge, and encounter a universe of ideas. Now a new documentary film unfolds the grand drama of how America’s public libraries came to be, and the surprising--and ongoing--battles over what belongs there, who can come in, and how to define and defend our public commons. ​Free for All ​is a rollicking road trip across

Release Date:In Post-Production; estimated Fall 2019

Studio: Serendipity Films, LLC

A film by Dawn Logsdon & Lucie Faulkn

Executive Producers:  Stanley Nelson, Marcia Smith, and Ellen Schneider