The Librarians

I saw TL at the OUT ON FILM festival in Atlanta, today. I went to the screening thinking it was an interesting subject, but was blown away by the quality of the documentary -- especially the editing and the development of the subject matter, which reaches a climax with the juxtaposition of two family members on opposite sides of the issue (a brilliant series of riveting scenes that unforgettably dramatizes the high stakes of the debate). Informative, emotionally charged, replete with interviews of figures involved in the struggle against censorship --- this is documentary filmmaking at its best.

This film is such an important piece of work. It was masterfully filmed and edited beautifully. I found it informative, disturbing, inspiring, and hopeful all at the same time. I am thankful for the producers of this film for highlighting this important fight for truth and free speech. I am truly grateful to to all the librarians in the film who stood up and spoke out in such a public way. I'm also grateful for all the unseen librarians in the trenches who do the work every day. Librarians are superheroes in the fight for democracy and intellectual freedom.

Anyone who pledges for knowledge to be censored should be worried for their own limited vision and how they pretend to do the same to others.

This isn't the first time in history when a political movement does its best to suppress different voices, and probably won't be the last; but these very brave women and men stood up their ground and defended what's fair.

Great documentary.

It's an honor to be part of this project and witness the story of our heroic librarians brought to the screen.

This film is more than a documentary. It's a stark warning about the coordinated efforts to censor, control, and dictate what knowledge we're allowed to access.

And to those who thought librarians would be easy targets? They couldn't have been more wrong.

A documentary should be impartial. As a none US citizen this was more like a propaganda about one side being the right ones, and the other is simply evil.

" They are not just banning books they are banning the best books" While not saying what books or way they were banned. If a book amid towards children has descriptions of sexual acts then it shouldn't be avilable to children. Sure, you can't banne the books from being sold, but that isn't what they are doing here, they are just saying schools shouldn't pay to have them, which is fair.