The Librarians - Award-Winning Documentary Screening
Join KCPL's Executive Director Natalie Hagan at a special screening of the award-winning documentary The Librarians. Celebrate your freedom to read and explore the role librarians across the country play in defending First Amendment Rights and ensuring access to information and resources.
The Librarians (2025)
1 hour 32 minutes
Film Synopsis
Librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy and our First Amendment Rights. As they well know, controlling the flow of ideas means control over communities.
In Texas, the Krause List targets 850 books focused on race and LGBTQIA+ stories – triggering sweeping book bans across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate. As tensions escalate, librarians connect the dots from heated school and library board meetings nationwide to lay bare the underpinnings of a large-scale coordinated extremist movement fueling the censorship efforts. Despite facing harassment, threats, and laws aimed at criminalizing their work – the librarians’ rallying cry for freedom to read is a chilling cautionary tale.