Watched American Animals just for fun, but afterwards I knew I needed to talk about it here. This film is about a bungled heist from 2004 in Lexington, Kentucky at Transylvania University (or Transy, as locals call it), which is the oldest college west of the Alleghenies since its founding in 1780. So Transy has some valuable stuff in their special collections. Some kids noticed this in 2004 and hatched a plan to steal some of the works. The collection is a department run by only one librarian. They set up an appointment, tied her up, and made off with a few volumes. They couldn’t sell the stolen merchandise and were easily caught, ending up spending more than 7 years in prison for their misdeed.
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References:
Article on librarian BJ Gooch’s career and retirement: https://www.transy.edu/1780/2020/09/t...

Transylvania U’s special collections: https://www.transy.edu/academics/libr... , https://libguides.transy.edu/Speccoll

“Audubon’s Masterpiece: The Double Elephant Folio Edition of the Birds of America,” Transylvania Treasures 1, no. 2 (Spring 2008): 2-5.
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Wiki: American Animals is a 2018 crime docudrama film written and directed by Bart Layton. Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, and Ann Dowd, it follows four college friends who plan a heist of their library. It tells the story of an actual heist which took place at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 2004.[4]

American Animals premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2018. The film was theatrically released in the United States on June 1, 2018 by The Orchard and MoviePass Ventures.[5] Among other awards the film won the Junior Jury Award at The Montclair Film Festival. It received critical acclaim, particularly for its screenplay, acting, use of unreliable narrators and an unconventional storytelling structure that fused real-life characters and actors representing those characters.