An Inconvenient Truth(2006)
dir. Davis Guggenheim
The slideshow that made climate change unavoidable.
Where to watch: Streaming on Paramount+Letterboxd ↗
Al Gore's traveling slideshow on climate change, expanded into a film that helped move global warming from a fringe concern into mainstream urgency.
Why it’s here
A former vice president turned a slideshow into a movie and it worked — not because the science was new, but because someone finally said it plainly and often enough that it stopped being deniable in polite company.
Where This Film Lives
- Setting
- North America
- Topics
- climate change
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