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Just before the 2018 Oscars are presented, the Library screens three uplifting, Academy Award-winning or nominated shorts in the latest installment of...

As part of the Indie Lens Pop-Up film series, the Library and KCPT–Kansas City PBS screen the documentary Tell Them We Are Rising...

Searching the Psyche Through Cinema, the annual screening-and-discussion series, continues this year’s psychological studies of films directed by the...

Searching the Psyche Through Cinema, the annual and incisive screening-and-discussion series, returns with psychological studies of films directed by...

Visionaries including Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit Music & Memory, buck a broken healthcare system to demonstrate music’s ability to combat...

Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman joins Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell in a public conversation about Freeman’s...

Former ambassador David F. Lambertson, who served in Saigon in the mid-1960s as a member of the American embassy’s political secti...

Columbia University professor and writer Helen Benedict and the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Whitney Terrell...

The Library continues its movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families with the lighthearted documentary The Sear...

As the Vietnam War escalated in the 1960s, Hollywood was struggling financially and the longtime studio system was collapsing. Into the vacuum step...