"An Inconvenient Truth"

“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 and inspire them to take action. The film chronicles Gore's travels, crisscrossing the globe presenting a comprehensive slide show on climate change that, by his own estimate, he's given more than a thousand times.The idea to document his efforts came from Laurie David who saw his presentation at a town-hall meeting on global warming which coincided with the opening of The Day after Tomorrow. David was so inspired by Gore's slide show that she, with Lawrence Bender, met with Davis Guggenheim to adapt the presentation into a film.The film premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and opened in New York and Los Angeles on May 24, 2006. The film was released on DVD by Paramount Home Entertainment on November 21, 2006. A companion book by Gore, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, reached on the paperback nonfiction New York Times bestseller list on July 2, 2006. The documentary was a critical and box-office success, winning Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and for Best Original Song. The film also earned $49 million at the box office worldwide, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing documentary film to date in the United States (in nominal dollars, from 1982 to the present), after Fahrenheit 9/11, March of the Penguins, Earth and Sicko. An Inconvenient Truth has been credited for raising public awareness of climate change and reenergizing the environmental movement. “

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