Craig Cobb was already notorious before trying to take over Leith, North Dakota, and turn it into an Aryan enclave some three years ago. The struggle...

The acclaimed 2010 film Black Swan offers a strange and terrifying interpretation of the dance world, revolving around a bal...

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...