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The interior of the Victory Branch of Ada Community Library (Boise, ID) in Casey Pugh's The Empire Strikes Back Uncut. (Identified in the film as the planet "Bespin.")

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The exterior of the Bibliothèque publique d'information du Centre Pompidou (Paris) in Lewis Gilbert's Moonraker (1979). (Identified in the film as "Holly Goodhead's office at Hugo Drax's space-shuttle plant.")

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Various interiors and exteriors of various libraries in Lucie Faulknor and Dawn Logsdon's Free for All: The Public Library (2025)

[Watch the entire film on PBS's YouTube channel or the website for their program Independent Lens.]

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The exterior of the Chicago Cultural Center (formerly the Central Library of the Chicago Public Library) in Oliver Stones’s Natural Born Killers (1994). (Identified in the film as a courthouse.)

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The exterior of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (or, the Main Branch of the New York Public Library) in Gil Kenan's Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).

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The exterior of the Frances Howard Goldwyn - Hollywood Regional Branch Library of the Los Angeles Public Library in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood (1994). (Identified in the film as Quality Studios.)

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The interior of William Oxley Thompson Memorial Library at The Ohio State University (Columbus) in Ava DuVernay’s 13th (2016).

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The exterior of the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) in Wolfgang Petersen’s In the Line of Fire (1993).

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The interior of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (or, the Main Branch of the New York Public Library) in Scott Frank's A Walk Among Tombstones (2014).

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The exterior of the Richard J. Riordan Central Library (or, the Main Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library) in Martin Brest’s Beverly Hills Cop (1984). (Identified in the film as the exterior of the “Beverly Palms Hotel.”)

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The exterior of the Newberry Library (Chicago) in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve (2004). 

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The interior of the Queen/Saulter Branch of the Toronto Public Library in John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness (1994). (Identified in the film as a hall of records.)

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The exterior of the Thornhill Community Centre Branch of Markham Public Library (Markham, Ontario, Canada) in Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead (2004). (Identified in the film as a hospital.)

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The exterior of what was formerly the Salt Lake County Library (Midvale, UT) in Dwight H. Little’s Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988). (Identified in the film as the “Haddonfield Police Department.”)

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The exterior of Healy Hall, which houses Riggs Library, at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (1973).

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The interior of Founders Memorial Library at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL) in Nia DaCosta’s Candyman (2021).

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The exterior of the Porter Memorial Branch Library of the Newton County Library System (Covington, GA) in Tom McLoughlin’s Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986). (Identified in the film as the “Forest Green County Sheriff’s Department.”)