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.
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Laurie Anderson
Self
Dawn Logsdon
Director
Lucie Faulknor
Co-Director
Dawn Logsdon
Writer
Elizabeth Finlayson
Writer
Stanley Nelson
Executive Producer
Marcia Smith
Executive Producer
Ellen Schneider
Executive Producer
Lucie Faulknor
Producer
Vicente Franco
Director of Photography
Reed Harkness
Director of Photography
Elizabeth Finlayson
Editor
Debra Schaffner
Editor
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