Lillian blir föremål för trakasserier från en före detta polis som numera är en våldsam brottsherre som styr och ställer i ett litet samhälle vid vildmarkens rand. Hon finner inget stöd hos lokalbefolkningen och sheriffen rekommenderar henne att lämna byn, men hon bestämmer sig istället för att utmana sin sociopatiska stalker, och söker hjälp hos de enda två som är modiga nog att anta utmaningen.
Poliserna Chris och Bill får uppdraget att bevaka en ung kvinnas lägenhet. Kvinnan, Maria, är exflickvän till en förrymd brottsling och polisen tror att han kommer att dyka upp där. Det trista rutinuppdraget blir inte så trist för Chris, för han förälskar sig i kvinnan - och hon i honom. Bill hjälper motvilligt Chris att hemlighålla allt för deras chefer. Och Marias ex-pojkvän samtycker knappast...
I bergen i North Carolina har George Pemberton byggt upp ett framgångsrikt företag i timmerbranschen. När hans fru Serena anländer från Boston visar hon sig vara mer lämpad för det hårda livet i bergen än någon annan. Deras kärlek sätts på prov då det visar sig att George har ett barn med en annan kvinna samtidigt som Serena får beskedet att hon inte kan få barn. Med de mäktiga skogarna som en dramatisk bakgrund blir SERENA både en episk, romantisk och spännande berättelse om stora drömmar, makt, lust, girighet och svartsjuka.
Ett drama om Christian som återvänder hem för första gången på femton år när hans pappa ska gifta sig. Väl hemma återförenas han också med sin gamla vän Oliver och spenderar en del tid med dennes familj. Christians besök blir dock inte bara en kär återförening, det drar också fram flera gamla familjehemligheter i ljuset. Filmen är löst baserad på Henrik Ibsens pjäs Vildanden.
A white lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry Indigenous activist who insists on kidnapping the head of a logging company to teach him the price of his destruction.
Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town going broke and the other loggers go on strike ordering the Stampers to stop, however Hank continues to push his family on cutting more trees. Hank's wife wishes he would stop and hopes that they can spend more time together. When Hank's half brother Leland comes to work for them, more trouble starts.
A young man seeks his father's killers among lumberjacks, and discovers that they are actually timber barons who also seek to control lumber mills. Based on the novel of the same name.
On a freezing January evening, school bus driver Lesley completes her route, but her final inspection abruptly ends when a bluebird comes into view. What happens next shakes her small Maine logging town, proving that even the slightest actions have enormous consequences.
Tornionjokilaakso at the end of the 19th century, Paloniemi's landlord Heikki tries to get out of his financial difficulties with the help of his son Juhan and Nuottaniemi's only daughter Hanna. The happiness of Hanna, who has fallen in love with Antti of Rehti Koskenalusta, is threatened by the evil and dangerous Korpikoski.
A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.
Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.
High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a conservative place where change comes slowly. Jesse Howl (Douglas Spain), a teenager of Native American ancestry, has just moved to Calamus Grove, and soon finds he doesn't fit in this close-knit community. Wade and Lorna go out of their way to befriend Jesse, and soon find that they're also regarded as outcasts among their peers. Eager to get away from the narrow minds which are stifling them, the three friends grab a car and take off for a summer road trip that turns out to be full of lessons in life and love.
Anders moves from the city to a quiet small farm that belonged to his deceased parents and spends his days out in the forest, aimlessly chopping down trees. His only desire is to be out in nature, and to lose himself in the physical work. His attempt to escape is soon interrupted by the constant involvement of his pushy relatives who want to tell him what to do and how to do it. Soon it becomes clear that Anders has just traded in one claustrophobic existence for another.
A young man with only one hand gets a job at a timber camp and falls for his boss's daughter.
Living in an ancient redwood tree for more than two years to prevent the tree from being clear-cut, Julia Butterfly Hill captured our hearts and minds by showing us that one person can make a difference. Through interviews with Hill, filmmaker Doug Wolens paints a portrait of an intensely spiritual and articulate woman who encountered both beauty and horror (she was assaulted by lumber company helicopters at one point) during her time above ground.
A young forestry graduate, Jim Thornton, is involved in a race between timber companies to fill a major contract. Jim has joined the crew of a genial timber baron, Burbridge, and foils attempts by a rival, Blake, to sabotage their work. J. Alan Kenyon's special effects are the highlights of the film with comic relief provided by Joe Valli as a Scottish timber-train driver amorously pursued by a shrill-voiced maid of the Burbridge's country house.
The long log drive: a spring journey down icy streams and rivers moving logs from the forest to the mill for sawing into boards, laths, and clapboards. For more than 150 years, logging techniques remained the same. Men cut trees by hand and loaded them on horse-drawn sleds to be hauled over snow to the river. Skilled river drivers maneuvered the logs downstream, risking their limbs and lives every day. This film survives as a record of the long log business.
London socialite Cathleen Paget's adventures in love and misfortune a year after the death of her husband. Ivor Willington and Lionel Jesop play cards for who will be given the shot at flirting with Paget, as to claim her wealth. But when her brother Bruce has lost the family fortune in bad business, Cathleen is suggested to court Nordic giant Birger Holm. The two marry and the families financial problems seem to be at bay, although the life in the northern Sweden is wearing Cathleen down as she misses parties, friends and dancing at the Savoy Hotel.
In June 2010, French actress Marion Cotillard spent a week in the heart of the tropical forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo with members of Greenpeace France and Greenpeace Africa. She delivers in video a strong testimony on the looting of Congolese forests which benefits a few industrial groups, often European.
The human impact on forests is explored through breathtaking vistas and poignant vignettes set in Canada's Pacific Northwest. Those who rely on this precious resource highlight the tensions and dilemmas between commodification and conservation.