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Free for All: The Public Library (2025)
85 min | Documentary

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Free for All: The Public Library (2025)

85 min | Documentary

A documentary explores public libraries' journey from their free-access origins in the 1800s to today's challenges amid culture wars and funding cuts. Premieres on INDEPENDENT LENS April 29, 2025.

Directors

Lucie Faulknor | Dawn Logsdon

Writers

Elizabeth Finlayson | Dawn Logsdon

Producers

Lucie Faulknor (producer) | Dawn Logsdon (producer)

Composer

Derrick Hodge

Cinematographers

Vicente Franco | Reed Harkness

Editor

Dawn Logsdon (editor)

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Release date

Feb 3, 2025 (United States)

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13 cast members

Name	Known for
Laurie Anderson Self (voice) Self (voice) See fewer	Heart of a Dog (2015)
Deborah Caldwell-Stone Self Self See fewer	Free for All: The Public Library (2025)
Malkia Cyril Themself Themself See fewer	My Life, Interrupted (2018)
Lolis Eric Elie Self (voice) Self (voice) See fewer	Treme (2010)
Sylvia Flowers Self (voice) Self (voice) See fewer	Free for All: The Public Library (2025)
Geraldine Edwards Hollis Self Self See fewer	Free for All: The Public Library (2025)
Crosby Kemper Self Self See fewer	Free for All: The Public Library (2025)
JoNell Kennedy Self (voice) Self (voice) See fewer	Dreamgirls (2006)
Jill Lepore Self Self See fewer	The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2013)
David Nasaw Self Self See fewer	American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
John Palfrey Self Self See fewer	Terms and Conditions May Apply (2013)
Abigail Van Slyck Self Self See fewer	Free for All: The Public Library (2025)
Ethelene Whitmire Self Self See fewer	Free for All: The Public Library (2025)