Nowadays, when we are dominated by the image empire, valuing books by means of the great audio-visual possibilities of the film offers significant perspectives. In film, due to the three components (image, literary commentary, musical score), the iconographic material (manuscript, photography, painting, scheme, etc.) gains movement, spatial and sound volume – a process that enlarges the ideal background, facilitates the assimilation and valuing of the views exposed in the book. As an argument – the documentary films of the film-maker Pavel Bălan, the one who successfully inaugurated two film cycles: The light of the book, the one that included the films The echo of the old boilers, The light page. And the second cycle - The forefathers of our past with the movies: Varlam, Anastasie Crimca, Dosoftei, Petru Movilă, Dimitrie Cantemir. Together with the achievement of his films, P. Bălan makes a name for himself as a great book author, historiographer and photographer. Starting from the album book - Poliptic Moldavian (1985, The State Prize of Moldova), followed by another five valuable historical and cultural books, ending up in 2016 with his last book Pray for the nation, an authentic identity card of our national identity. These two creative hypostases belonging to P. Bălan allow us to understand the book valuing process by means of film language.