An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

It is heartbreaking to realize this movie was made 15 years ago. Director Davis Guggenheim followed Al Gore on a global lecture tour, documenting Gore’s impressive presentation as well as the people and the countries he traveled to. This is a hard film to sit through, and I have to say I wept rewatching it, several times. From Gore’s opening narration through his grounded scientific data and astonishing images of the beauty and horrors of what we have done to our home (the only planet we have), the film floods us with beauty and poetry and quiet anger.

It is an eloquent call to action that we have, for the most part, ignored. Indeed, 11 years later, Gore made his follow-up plea, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. I urge you to go back and experience his original film. It is an important place to re-engage.