Hollywood has adapted, sampled, and stolen from William Shakespeare for more than a century – seeing his works as a source of prestige as soon as the...

In an impoverished and terrorism-plagued region of the Philippines, 13 teenagers accepted a challenge: to master their culture’s traditional instru...

Join us as we commemorate one of the landmark events in the civil rights movement. Library staff will lead a march around the block carrying signs...

The result of uncontrolled plowing on the Great Plains, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s turned prairies into deserts and unleashed a pattern of massive...

Former Kansas City Star film critic Robert Butler, now a member of the Library’s public affairs department, offers openin...

Selected clips from Freedom Riders — a new documentary describing the experiences of 400 black and white Americans that rode...

This annual film series takes a look at Marriage & Family – Under the Surface, starting with Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning direct...

Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert curates the annual Off-the-Wall Film Series, presenting a cross...

Filmmaker Gary Jenkins presents Negroes To Hire, a documentary on slavery in Missouri based on American...

The Searching the Psyche through Cinema series returns with Billy Elliot, a film about the son of a British coal miner...