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An Inconvenient Truth is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim released in USA on 30 june 2006 with Billy West

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

An Inconvenient Truth
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Released in USA 30 june 2006
Length 1h36
Directed by
OriginUSA
Rating73% 3.697793.697793.697793.697793.69779

An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate made in the film, he has given more than a thousand times.

Premiering at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opening in New York City and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006, the documentary was a critical and box-office success, winning two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. The film grossed $24 million in the U.S. and $26 million in the foreign box office, becoming the tenth highest grossing documentary film to date in the United States.

The idea to document his efforts came from producer Laurie David who saw his presentation at a
town-hall meeting on global warming which coincided with the opening of The Day After Tomorrow. Laurie David was so inspired by Gore's slide show that she, with producer Lawrence Bender, met with Guggenheim to adapt the presentation into a film.

Since the film's release, An Inconvenient Truth has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and reenergizing the environmental movement. The documentary has also been included in science curricula in schools around the world, which has spurred some controversy.

Synopsis

L'ex vice-président Al Gore se consacre à ce qu'il considère comme son devoir après l'échec de l'élection présidentielle américaine de 2000. Il s'implique lui-même dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique. Dans la continuité d'une présentation exposée à travers le monde dans sa tournée surnommée « The Slide Show », Gore met en lumière la quasi-unanimité des scientifiques s'accordant sur le réchauffement global de la Terre, débat sur la politique et l'économie du réchauffement global ), et décrit les conséquences graves que le changement du climat produira si la quantité de production humaine de gaz à effet de serre n'est pas significativement réduite dans un futur très proche.

Actors

Billy West

(Various (voice))
Ronald Reagan

(Self (archive footage))
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