An Inconvenient Truth and the Environmental Film
Al Gore stars in this very poignant documentary that has done as much as anything in the film medium to warn us about the real effects of climate change, particularly by having such a high-profile person as the former vice-president putting his heartfelt opinions into it. However, An Inconvenient Truth isn´t the first film of this kind, either in fiction or documentary format.
The first environmentally conscious film can be traced back to Hell and High Water (1954), a cold war drama film starring Richard Widmark. Canada was the first country to make the larger public fully appreciate what was happening and what they could do about it with the Hinterland Who's Who one-minute public service announcements which began broadcasting in the 1960s and 1970s.
This last decade as seen ther most dramatic increase in films which address the environment.
Landmark environmmental films and documentaries include: Hell and High Water (1954), Hinterland Who's Who (1960s), Tentacles (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), Baraka (1992), FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Scientists and the Alaska Oil Spill (1992), A Civil Action (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), Silent Storm (2003), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Future of Food (2004), Children of the Tsunami: No More Tears (2005), An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006), Happy Feet (2006), The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006), Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11 (2006), The Toxic Clouds of 9/11: A Looming Disaster (2006), Toxic Legacy (2006), Ultimate Tornado (2006), Earth (2007), The 11th Hour (film) (2007), The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007), What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007), Super Comet: After The Impact (2007), A Delicate Balance - The Truth (2008), An Inconvenient Penguin (2008), Flow: For Love of Water (2008), Le Monde selon Monsanto (The World according to Monsanto) (2008), The Age of Stupid (2009), The Cove (film) (2009), Food, Inc. (2009), and Cape Wind: The Fight for the Future of Power in America.
Al Gore stars in this very poignant documentary that has done as much as anything in the film medium to warn us about the real effects of climate change, particularly by having such a high-profile person as the former vice-president putting his heartfelt opinions into it. However, An Inconvenient Truth isn´t the first film of this kind, either in fiction or documentary format.
The first environmentally conscious film can be traced back to Hell and High Water (1954), a cold war drama film starring Richard Widmark. Canada was the first country to make the larger public fully appreciate what was happening and what they could do about it with the Hinterland Who's Who one-minute public service announcements which began broadcasting in the 1960s and 1970s.
This last decade as seen ther most dramatic increase in films which address the environment.
Landmark environmmental films and documentaries include: Hell and High Water (1954), Hinterland Who's Who (1960s), Tentacles (1977), The China Syndrome (1979), Baraka (1992), FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992), Scientists and the Alaska Oil Spill (1992), A Civil Action (1998), Erin Brockovich (2000), Silent Storm (2003), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), The Future of Food (2004), Children of the Tsunami: No More Tears (2005), An Inconvenient Truth (2006), Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006), Happy Feet (2006), The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006), Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11 (2006), The Toxic Clouds of 9/11: A Looming Disaster (2006), Toxic Legacy (2006), Ultimate Tornado (2006), Earth (2007), The 11th Hour (film) (2007), The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007), What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire (2007), Super Comet: After The Impact (2007), A Delicate Balance - The Truth (2008), An Inconvenient Penguin (2008), Flow: For Love of Water (2008), Le Monde selon Monsanto (The World according to Monsanto) (2008), The Age of Stupid (2009), The Cove (film) (2009), Food, Inc. (2009), and Cape Wind: The Fight for the Future of Power in America.
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