An Inconvenient Truth

Guide Note

An Inconvenient Truth is the film version of former Vice President Al Gore's traveling slide show on climate change.

The film details Gore's attempt to educate the world's people and dispel common myths surrounding climate change in an attempt to mobilize citizens and governments to take action before it's too late. Interspersed with frightening facts of the human impact on out planet and scientific projections of the future are details of Gore's life and his crusade to educate people about climate change.

An Inconvenient Truth won 21 awards from various agencies including two Academy Awards for Best Documentary and Best Original Song. It was the first documentary in Academy history to win two awards.

Fast Facts

1. Director: Davis Guggenheim
2. Distributed by Paramount Classics
3. Worldwide revenue: Over $49 million
4. Run time: 100 minutes
5. Received three standing ovations at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival
6. 50,000 DVD copies were given to teachers across the United States

1. "You see that pale, blue dot? That's us. Everything that has ever happened in all of human history, has happened on that pixel. All the triumphs and all the tragedies, all the wars all the famines, all the major advances... it's our only home. And that is what is at stake, our ability to live on planet Earth, to have a future as a civilization. I believe this is a moral issue, it is your time to cease this issue, it is our time to rise again to secure our future."
2. "Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced."