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1) Serena
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In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newlyweds, move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattlesnakes, even saving a man's life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers...
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Jasper, a two foot high gnome, has been searching for a suitable bride to please his 900 year-old grandfather. He gets help from two children after a chance encounter with them in the forest. Trouble ensues when a showman discovers the gnomes and masterminds a kidnapping plot.
4) Serena
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In 1929, just as the Depression has hit, newlywed couple George and Serena Pemberton, move from Boston to North Carolina to build a timber empire. Although Serena proves herself to be an important part of their success, overseeing crews and handling every bit of trouble that comes upon them, when Serena discovers she's unable to bear children, it sets her on a path of destruction.
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Explore the past and present of the rough-and-tumble logging industry and the treacherous lives of Pacific Northwest timber cutters. Follow five logging crews, including a team of diving loggers and another that relies on helicopters, through a season in the remote forests of northwest Oregon.
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The Yankee clipper: Feature-length melodrama recreating the real-life race from Foo Chow to Boston for the China tea trade, filmed at sea for six weeks aboard the 1856 wooden square-rigger Indiana. Restored to the most complete version available since the film's release.
Ship ahoy!: A unique record of the conditions and traditions of the North American lumber trade featuring an unidentified schooner equipped with a fore and aft rig as it transports...
9) Prophecy
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A doctor and his wife who, at the request of a concerned friend, travel to Maine to research the impact of the lumber industry on the local environment. They find ecological freaks of nature and a series of bizarre and grisly human deaths.
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"Jim Hadley has a government grant to cut timber near the high-country town of Deep Well, and that's what he and his callous lumbermen insist they'll do. But the townspeople, knowing that the ruinous watershed destruction that follows such clear-cutting, resist Hadley setting in motion a clash of wills and force"--Container.
11) Pueblo de madera
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Español
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"The description of life in a timber-producing town, San Miguel de las Cruces, Durango, as seen by two of the male protagonists during their visit."--Container.
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