THE LIBRARIANS Documentary Movie

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THE LIBRARIANS Documentary Movie Trailer HD - Plot synopsis: America’s war on books is more than a war on words. THE LIBRARIANS, a new feature documentary from Academy Award® nominee and Peabody Award winner Kim A. Snyder.  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 extremism 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.

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00:00I'm doing a criminal investigation into some of your staff.

00:08Essentially, the librarians are my suspects.

00:11Have you a real love of people, books, and learning?

00:15You may well consider the vocation of a librarian.

00:19It didn't dawn on us that we would come under attack.

00:25The word I have on my heart is repentance.

00:28We have librarians who are misunderstanding what is healthy and good for children.

00:33When I was first attacked, a student's mother was calling me a pornographer, pedophile, and groomer of children.

00:39This? Do not interrupt my time!

00:47That was my office.

00:49These are two books that I was asked to be removed, and I would not remove them.

00:53We're gonna pull books off the shelves.

00:55Stamp.

00:57Color purple.

00:58Yep, there's your nudity right there.

01:01Get rid of them. Get rid of them.

01:03This book was banned.

01:05I would like to know how the history of the KKK is pornographic.

01:09We have a movement within America that has decided that school boards are now where they want to push their agenda.

01:17This stuff is coming into your schools, and it's probably already there.

01:21Part of the ethics of our profession to support the First Amendment and fight censorship.

01:35I've had former students reach out to me that have told me books have saved them.

01:39I'm gonna speak out about it.

01:43This is not a communist nation.

01:46You do not get to pick our reading material.

01:49It is ours.

01:51You're trying to arrest librarians.

01:52No, I do not understand.

01:53You're a fascist.

01:54You're a fascist.

01:56I cannot imagine my face on the wanted poster and my friends being taken away in handcuffs.

02:02You're coming for teachers and librarians, and they know it.

02:07This is a spiritual war.

02:09Our goal is to spread this to other communities.

02:12This is about taking away rights.

02:15I'm here today to implore you to listen to librarians.

02:18What is going on?

02:21This can't be America.

02:24No, this can't be America.

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