Co-Starring Your Local Library

The exterior of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (or, the Main Branch of the New York Public Library) in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959).

The exterior of the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) in Phillip Noyce's Clear and Present Danger (1994).

The exterior of the Edward L. Doheny Jr. Memorial Library at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) in Ken Loach’s Bread and Roses (2000).

The exterior of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (or, the Main Branch of the New York Public Library) in William Dieterle's Portrait of Jennie (1948).

The exterior of the Oshkosh Public Library (Oshkosh, WI) in Michael Mann's Public Enemies (2009). (Identified in the film as New Carlisle, OH.)

The exterior of the Jefferson Market Branch of the New York Public Library in James L. Brooks's As Good As It Gets (1997).

The exterior of the Central Library of the Brooklyn Public Library in Peter Yates's The Hot Rock (1972). (Identified in the film as the Brooklyn Museum.)

The interior of the San Pedro High School Library (San Pedro, CA) in Bill Condon’s Gods and Monsters (1998). (Identified in the film as Santa Monica Public Library.)

The exterior of the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) in Alan J. Pakula’s All the President’s Men (1976).

The exterior of what was then the Santa Rosa Free Public Library (California) in Alfred Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt (1943).

The interior of the 53rd Street Branch of the New York Public Library in Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums (2001).

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.)

The exterior of what was then the Long Beach Public Library (Long Beach, CA) in Clarence Brown’s The Human Comedy (1943). (Identified in the film as the “Ithaca (CA) Public Library.”)

The interior of the New Orleans Public Library's Main Library in Edward Zwick’s Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016). (Identified in the film as a library in the Washington, D.C., area.)

The exterior of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (or, the Main Branch of the New York Public Library) in H. Bruce Humberstone's I Wake Up Screaming (1941).

The exterior of Low Memorial Library at Columbia University (New York City) in Kei Pritsker and Michael T. Workman's The Encampments (2025).

The interior of the Main Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) in Russell Rouse's The Thief (1952).