YES, this is the same film showing in theatres across the country in early October- FREE to stream at home from Morley Library, sponsored by The Friends of Morley Library!

We are honored to host a two week-long window virtual screening from October 11- 24  in the comfort of your own home! We have purchased a special license that will enable 100 registrations for FREE viewing at home, while licenses remain. Please read carefully for registration and other information.

Below is the virtual screening room link and the invitation code for your screening of

THE LIBRARIANS.

Link to register: https://www.filmplatform.net/events/the-librarians-morley-library/

Invitation Code (case-sensitive and contains a single dash): TLM-LIB

Click the film platform link above, and then click REGISTER to enter your email address and the event invitation code, case sensitive as listed. You can also start the film and come back to it later if you can't watch in one sitting. Please do not register a second time, it is not necessary and will use another limited license. You can return to the event by clicking “Event Login” and entering the same email address and the event invitation code. Please note the film is only accessible during the screening dates:

12:01 am Saturday, October 11  to Friday, October 24 11:59 pm

If audience members are having trouble registering, please visit the FAQ section within the screening room.

Please note: the recommended browsers for the screening are Chrome and Safari. 

**We will be having an in-person post-viewing discussion at the library on Saturday, October 25 at 1:00 pm, featuring cameos from special guests!  Please register separately with Morley Library if you would like to be part of this discussion.

Thank you to The Friends of Morley Library for sponsoring this program with us!

Visit  https://thelibrariansfilm.com/about/  to view trailer and more information.

***(Please note this is an award-winning documentary about censorship and librarians - NOT related to the tv series The Librarians.)

"In a dystopian saga akin to a real-life Fahrenheit 451 sequel, director KIM A. SNYDER’s gripping documentary THE LIBRARIANS traverses small-town U.S.A. with riveting interviews and troves of archival material to reveal the story of the country’s heroic librarians, everyday Americans who have become unlikely defenders of democracy, risking everything to uphold our most fundamental of rights."

"With unique access to a new movement in the making, librarians take us on an odyssey across America to tell their story to resist censorship efforts. We meet a US Army veteran who was fired for refusing to remove books with racial content — and whose County Commissioners, in the wake of a lawsuit filed by local community members alleging First and Fourteenth Amendment Rights infringements, attempted to close the public library itself. A librarian in New Jersey investigates coordinated efforts between Parental Rights organizations and a national effort to undermine public education that landed in her own school district with direct attacks, calling her a “pornographer, pedophile, and groomer of children”. A nationally lauded librarian is besieged with death threats in her native Louisiana parish where she lost 12 students to suicide because to feeling “othered.” Tensions escalate as legislation spreads proposing to criminalize librarians for distributing alleged pornographic materials to minors.

"A different kind of superhero movie."