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The eruption of Mount St. Helens!

2000
Chronicles the events of the eruptions of Mount Saint Helens beginning on May 18, 1980, and revisits the area a decade later to show the gradual regrowth of the region.

Blast zone

the eruption and recovery of Mount St. Helens
2004

The eruption of Mount St. Helens!

2001
Chronicles the eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, presenting footage of the volcano before, immediately after, and ten years after the blast, and discusses the destructive and restorative power of nature.

Boston Jane

the claim
2005
The arrival from Philadelphia of her spiteful nemesis Sally Biddle and the return of her corrupt ex-fiance Richard Baldt spell trouble for seventeen-year-old Miss Jane Peck, who has survived on her own in Shoalwater Bay, a community of white settlers and Chinook Indians in 1850s Washington Territory.

More than petticoats

remarkable Washington women
1998

Death on the Fourth of July

the story of a killing, a trial, and hate crime in America
2004
Describes the racially driven confrontation between three young Asian-Americans and a group of white skinheads in Ocean Shores, Washington, which resulted in the death of Christopher Kinison and the murder trial of Minh Hong.

The oldest man in America

an adventure in archaeology
1970

New Moon

2005
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

Reservation blues

2005
Legendary bluesman, Robert Johnson, arrives at a Spokane Indian reservation and passes his guitar to a young boy leading them around the country sounding chords of celebration and survival.

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