The Library continues this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series – featuring films adapted from books – with the 2017 dra...

The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the...

Fifty years ago, Chicago’s Black Panther Party formed an unlikely alliance in one of the most segregated cities in America. Intent on addressing po...

Facing overwhelming obstacles, Jews and others in occupied Europe resisted Nazi rule in a variety of ways during World War II. Some instigated u...

Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc...

Thirty years ago, a peaceful demonstration by university students in the Czechoslovakian capital of Prague set off a chain of events that effect...

The Library continues its film series showcasing the diverse roles of girls as cinematic storytellers with the Sundance Film Festival-winning drama...

For 10 years in the 1970s, the South Bronx area of New York City literally smoldered. An arson epidemic, compounded by government negligence, ra...

The Young Friends of the Library host a night of Halloween-season cinema after hours in the Central Library. Join us for some scares...

The Library continues its film series showcasing the diverse roles of girls as cinematic storytellers with the acclaimed 1997 emotional drama...