Storyville

Season 16 Episode 5: The Love of Books - A Sarajevo Story

Documentary which tells the story of a group of men and women who risked their lives to rescue a library - and preserve a nation's history - in the midst of the Bosnian war. Amid bullets and bombs and under fire from shells and snipers, this handful of passionate book-lovers safeguarded more than 10,000 unique, hand-written Islamic books and manuscripts - the most important texts held by Sarajevo's last surviving library.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

30

Episodes:

768

Cast:

Quality:

HD

Duration:

85 min

First Air:

1997

Rating:

7.6