Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'The Man Who Would Be King' Monday, January 24, 2022 6:00pm Online The format of this event has been changed to virtual only. Watch online at yout... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'Waterloo' Monday, March 14, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person You want big-screen shock and awe? Russian director Sergei Bondarchuk and producer Dino De Laurentiis delivered it in Waterloo... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'Memphis Belle' Monday, March 28, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person The Memphis Belle and the men who flew the famed B-17 Flying Fortress became symbols of the heavy bomber crews and support personnel who helped def... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Wild Sunday, January 12, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person Sigmund Freud, the celebrated father of psychoanalysis, often referenced literature and theater in his analytic theory. The annual Searc... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: The Outsiders Sunday, January 26, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The month’s second Searching the Psyche Through Cinema installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s classic look at life on the... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Disobedience Sunday, February 9, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Library continues this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series – featuring films adapted from books – with the 2017 dra... Read More
Signature Event From Page to Screen: Boy Erased Sunday, February 23, 2020 1:30pm Plaza Branch In Person The Library wraps up this year’s Searching the Psyche Through Cinema series with a final screening and discussion of a film adapted f... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'Dr. Strangelove' Monday, May 23, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Nearly 60 years after its release, Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb... Read More
Signature Event Hollywood vs. History: 'Glory' Monday, June 13, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Military historian Harry S. Laver of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College separates fact from Hollywood fiction in one of the most acclaime... Read More
Signature Event World War II and The Best Years of Our Lives Monday, June 27, 2022 6:00pm Plaza Branch In Person Brian Steed of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College continues the Hollywood vs. History series, examining the film industry’s role in sh... Read More