Synopsis
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolse
Your Movie Library
Cast
- Leonardo DiCaprioHimself - Narrator
- Kenny AusubelHimself
- Sylvia EarleHerself
- John TrudellHimself
- Wangari MaathaiHerself
- Oren R. LyonsHimself
- David SuzukiHimself
- Stephen HawkingHimself
- Janine BenyusHerself
- Gloria FloraHerself
Recommendations
- 91
Christian Science Monitor
Considerably less slick than "An Inconvenient Truth," and no less urgent. - 88
TV Guide Magazine
The one film to see on this most crucial subject. - 80
L.A. Weekly
Ultimately a triumph of redemptive ideas that DiCaprio -- God bless his celebrity -- may finally succeed in transporting from the environmental fringe to the mainstream moviegoing audience. - 80
Los Angeles Times
Thankfully for audiences, 11th Hour is not without hope. The filmmakers save the most exhilarating portion for last when they ask what's being done about the problems. - 70
New York Magazine (Vulture)
It isn’t much of a movie (unless your aesthetic was formed in high-school science class), but it will be hugely informative to aliens who land on this planet in a thousand years and wonder why there’s no welcoming committee. - 70
Variety
Presents the viewer with reams of depressing data, loads of hand-wringing about the woeful state of humanity and, finally, some altogether fascinating ideas about how to go about solving the climate crisis. - 70
Salon
Arguably a more important movie, which more clearly lays out what must be done to save the world, and how we can begin. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
This activist documentary -- alternately impassioned, despairing, edifying, and hectoring about all the ways humans are screwing up the earth in a death rattle of hubris -- shouts, People, do something! In contrast, "An Inconvenient Truth" feels positively hushed.
