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An Inconvenient Truth

Format: DVD
4.5 out of 5 stars 2,787 ratings
IMDb7.4/10.0
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  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.56 x 5.71 x 0.24 inches; 1 Pounds
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, French, Spanish
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000I8OOLU
  • Best Sellers Rank: #293,442 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
    • #225,088 in DVD
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.5 out of 5 stars 2,787 ratings

Customer reviews

4.5 out of 5 stars
2,787 global ratings

Customers say

Customers consider this documentary a must-see, praising its depth of research and ability to get viewers thinking. The film effectively presents global warming and climate change topics, with one customer noting its comprehensive coverage of the crisis. While customers find it well-executed and eye-opening, opinions about its truthfulness are mixed, with some appreciating how it sticks to scientific data while others note it lacks sufficient scientific detail.

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191 customers mention "Enjoyment"172 positive19 negative

Customers find the documentary engaging and worth watching, describing it as one of the most important films they've seen.

"Excellent documentary, but he needs to make another one entitled "A Decade Later."" Read more

"...Anyway, this is a great movie, as it has it all: science, politics, social implications of climate change, and even Gore's autobiography. A must see...." Read more

"...dealt quite properly to make a PowerPoint presentation into an interesting and dynamic documentary, making sure that not everybody will fall asleep...." Read more

"Great and informative movie! We need to hear more truth coming from prominent places...." Read more

93 customers mention "Information quality"91 positive2 negative

Customers find the documentary informative and educational, praising its depth of research and scientific principles, with one customer noting it presents simple facts and diagrams.

"Very informative! The film had graphics that were easy to understand and made the things that contribute to the problem of climate change clear." Read more

"A very informative and powerful documentary. A must watch. I wonder what this country would have looked like if Al Gore was President in 2000." Read more

"...It's a beautiful, informative, often sad but extremely helpful look at what is happening and what we can do about it...." Read more

"Great and informative movie! We need to hear more truth coming from prominent places...." Read more

71 customers mention "Eye-opening"64 positive7 negative

Customers find the documentary eye-opening, describing it as a powerful and excellent eye-opener, with one customer noting how it relates to current events.

"...Then, oh yeah, its for real. This film was the real eye opener. The facts, I'm afraid, speak for themselves. We all know who the ney sayers work for...." Read more

"...he took at Republican administrations, I came away with both an eye-opening and deafening appreciation for the environmental alarms that are being..." Read more

"Great show! Eye opening to how we are ruining our planet...." Read more

"A very informative and powerful documentary. A must watch. I wonder what this country would have looked like if Al Gore was President in 2000." Read more

44 customers mention "Information about global warming"38 positive6 negative

Customers appreciate the movie's presentation of global warming, with one customer noting its comprehensive coverage of the topic.

"I recommend this DVD to everyone. It is simply the truth and it is told very well. Roxann Hill Gecko girl" Read more

"A telling and monumental movie, for sure. Al Gore tells it like it is. An Inconvenient Truth" Read more

"Al Gore put together an excellent documentary on global warming. It's convincing and easy enough for the average person to understand...." Read more

"...It is presented by Al Gore with intelligent, heartfelt honesty, a little humor and a lot of facts in easy to understand graphs, photography and film...." Read more

40 customers mention "Quality"37 positive3 negative

Customers praise the documentary's quality, describing it as well-executed and well put together.

"...It is a great movie/presentation. Very well done and reflective of our needs and what we can do to help, in addition to enlisting governments in the..." Read more

"Well done, and a reality check to those out there so wrapped up in their own world that they forget the world!..." Read more

"...it easier to understand how we affect the planet, and Al Gore does a great job at helping to guide you along and keep you entertained while the..." Read more

"...While hardly the end all of global warming science, the movie is well done and provides for a base understanding of the subject...." Read more

34 customers mention "Climate change"32 positive2 negative

Customers appreciate the movie's perspective on climate change, praising its convincing predictions of future trends and comprehensive summary of environmental issues.

"A must see for climate change deniers." Read more

"climate change is real" Read more

"...The message here is that it is NOT DIFFICULT and NOT A HARDHSIP to be an environmentalist - or don't call yourself an environmentalist - say you are..." Read more

"This DVD does a great job of summarizing the climate change issues, what the problems are, what can be done and why the current administration has..." Read more

29 customers mention "Thought provoking"28 positive1 negative

Customers find the movie thought-provoking and enlightening, with one customer noting how it enriches understanding and discussions about the environment.

"Thought provoking. Very interesting look at global warming and the steps we should all take to preserve our earth for the generations to come." Read more

"Enlightening. Must see." Read more

"...it's age (2005), this movie is still very releveant, informative and empowering. A must-show for all science teachers...." Read more

"Controversial, ground breaking, but thought provoking. Probably of great historical importance...." Read more

92 customers mention "Truthfulness"63 positive29 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the film's presentation of facts, with some praising its excellent job of laying them out while others point out that it lacks sufficient scientific content.

"Changed our lives. Inconvenient Truth helps you look at the world from the perspective of our Creator...." Read more

"True but boaring!" Read more

"Full of half truths and some all out lies...." Read more

"Informative, convincing, masterful, scary, sad, prophetic...obviously Al Gore has found his true calling. See it and pass it on to others." Read more

Top reviews from the United States

  • meldanomo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Still a penetrating, fascinating work. So important and true.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 1, 2025
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    Still one of the most important documentaries ever made in the 20th century. I still cry each time I watch it.
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  • Brian Mumford
    5.0 out of 5 stars To the Naysayers
    Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2007
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    Unfortunately, you are either a disseminator of disinformation or one of the unfortunate individuals who have been duped by the "corporatocracy" here in America (and abroad). The evidence is overwhelming that mankind is exacerbating the global warming phenomenon; period--end of argument.

    Unfortunately, the reality is simply this--finding a solution to global warming would deal a fatal blow to the profiteers that stand to lose the most money (hence "An Incontinent Truth") while the rest of us, and our posterity, stand to lose what little "hospitable" environment we have left. It is bad enough that pollution and other environmental stressors have tainted our planet with disease, but what's even worse are the effects of the ever-increasing carbon emissions into our atmosphere and what they will do in the not so distant future (because of people like you [the naysayer] that refuse to admit or see the truth).

    If you have simply been duped, I hope you come around and peace finds you and your family as we stand a modicum of hope to overcome this impending crisis. If you are part of the false propagandists, however, then you are akin to a lethal virus that needs to be eradicated. That is not a threat--that is simply an analogy because, if we do not start seriously addressing the global warming issue, many of us will stand to be wiped out as the climate shifts at an accelerated and intensified rate. What perhaps you and others are insidiously trying to do is mix fact with fiction, exploiting the former with the latter by using a teleological fallacy which ultimately results in a very dubious and slippery slope which will have disastrous consequences.

    What's worse is that the plutocracy found in American and throughout the world will cease at nothing to protect their profit margins by paying off pseudo scientists to produce bogus studies which provide "plausible deniability" for companies like Exxon and politicians on the right (and left) in need of the political cover necessary to legislate and prevent laws to support the wealthiest 1% of our population.

    The power of the "corporatocracy" must be stopped, and it is not limited to the global warming phenomenon (albeit it is the worst problem of all). Their power is also the driving force behind the malevolent distribution of wealth and resources in society--a concentration of wealth that FDR fought so hard to cease and prevent for future generations; all of which came to a grinding halt after the breakup of ATT and Reagan's unwavering support of economic principles he understood little himself, but which had huge economic advantages to the overwhelming corporations that have grown up ever since and the individuals at their helm who profit from them the most). These "anti anti-monopoly" practices continue to have adverse repercussions for the rest of us today--and the problem is only getting worse.

    Global warming, or our lack to mobilize efforts in opposition to the man-made and overwhelming portion of it, is simply the greatest symptom of a fundamental flaw in American politics... the illusion of democracy (or rather, the illusion of a democratic-republic) here in the United States and in other "democratic" nations around the world. The power, both public and private, simply doesn't reside in the hand of the people anymore--that's the illusion--it really rests in relatively few people and families that pull the strings for the rest of us.

    The greatest cure for our problems, including global warming, is addressing the underlying political flaws which prevent us from dealing with them equitably and sensibly in the first place. To do that, we need to embrace the spirit of the 2nd Amendment so that we can bring something more than empty threats to the political round table--we can bring the reality of an armed citizenry that refuses to allow corporations (and government) to abuse capitalism in a way that runs over the overwhelming majority of people. Conscientious capitalism can work, but conscientious conservatism, as practiced, cannot.

    I don't have time to thoroughly argue the 2nd Amendment portion of my argument here, but if you are a naysayer, I would admonish you to rethink your opinions in such matters as mentioned thereof and get on the right side of things with the rest of us--after all--we the people prevailed in 1776, so there is a good chance we may overcome tyranny again (wherever and whenever it exists)...

    Remember, global warming is symptomatic of a greater problem Thomas Jefferson often spoke of. It isn't just the corporations; it's the banks (and specifically, the Federal Reserve, the private institution that heads them all--a duty delegated to congress in the American Constitutions which was later subverted by the Supreme Court). Jefferson wrote...

    "I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."

    Considering you really don't own your home if you have a mortgage--Jefferson was right. What takes thirty years and two to three times the price of your home to begin with should take a fraction of that time and cost to your god-given right to own your home. We'll never fix this problem, or global warming, without first addressing "the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks]" to begin with.

    But how is this ever going to happen if our politicians, and the heads of banks and corporations surrounding them, don't take us seriously? If a British soldier knocked on your door in 1776, chances are that he would have a musket similar to the one you had hidden behind your door (and to the one that fired "the first shot heard `round the world" in Concord, Massachusetts the previous year). Even though you would be outnumbered by the local British garrison, they would in turn be outnumbered by your neighbors (which made up the local militia). The spirit of the militia is what has been lost since the American Revolution; and its loss is the cause of corporate greed, government intrusion, the gross maldistribution of wealth in this country (and around the world), and crime. Thank about it; if everyone walked around with a sidearm like you'd see in some old western, virtually no one would consider perpetrating a crime against you (as the movie industry would have you believe). Just as it served to subvert the Cold War, MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction), an ever-armed citizenry would virtually eliminate violent crime. It wouldn't be necessary for every single person to carry a firearm (such as children, adolescents, or a habitual criminal recently released from prison); it simply require enough people so that the chances of someone concealing a weapon would be far greater than not.

    Like Jefferson and our forefathers, I don't advocate violence for "light an transient reasons", but global warming and other problems that plague Americans and citizens around the world (like the refusal for universal healthcare and terrorism), are so insurmountable that violence, or the threat of it, is sometimes the only way to resolve the seemingly irresolvable. The only way to be a threat to the heads of corporations and opportunists in government is to ensure we have an armed citizenry--an armed citizenry that has the right to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" afforded by the Constitution and guaranteed via the first and second amendments of the Bill of Rights.

    It's important that our citizenry can see this connection between: global warming and other problems we face in the world, "the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks]", our government, the Constitution, and the 2nd Amendment within it. We have the power, but human nature sometimes prevents us from using it. Just as Al Gore uses the analogy of the frog in "an inconvenient truth", Jefferson mentioned our inability to use the power of the people in the Declaration of Independence when he wrote, "all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." But he also immediately went on to say, "But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security."

    I am as "liberal" as the next guy when it comes to universal healthcare, protectionist measures to ensure fair trade (to protect both companies and their workers), and unions to ensure humane conditions in the workplace, etc... but global warming is going to have catastrophic consequences if we don't quell this "long Train of Abuses and Usurpations." To do this, we need to go back to the fundamental right to bear arms--that way we have teeth able to hold politicians and the heads of corporations accountable. With embracing the 2nd Amendment and creating a culture of arms, we remain toothless in the flight against global warming.
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  • B Young
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must see for anyone that cares about our planet.
    Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2025
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    This is a must-see if you care about our planet. It is well-made and is an important chronicle of what is happening to the planet. This was made quite a few years ago, so it is great to be able to see what was predicted in this film and how accurately these things have come to pass.
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  • L. F. Smith
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Non-Political Review
    Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2007
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    Discussions about the global warming issue can very quickly take on the tone of religious warfare, as some of the reviews here show. I want to focus on the video as a video, reviewing some of its interesting features-- and some of its limitations.

    Those looking for an introduction to global warming should buy the book in addition to-- or maybe instead of-- the DVD. Obviously, the film parallels the book, but it is, after all, a film of Gore giving his presentation. That means that there's no way to look at the charts and graphs closely or to think about them before moving on. In fact, some of them go by so quickly or lose so much detail as the camera pans out that it's not easy to understand what they're showing.

    Further, like the book, this is at most a very general introduction to global warming issues. It's best suited to an audience that doesn't have much of a technical background. (Like me; and, for the record, in the last year, I moved from the skeptic's camp to that of the non-fanatic believers.) There certainly is a little Bush-bashing and a generally negative attitude toward Republican policies. That's not too surprising, considering that Gore has spent his life as a Democratic political figure. In any event, they're pretty mild. While Gore's explanations of global warming are pretty convincing, his suggested solutions to the problem (mostly strict adherence to the Kyoto treaty and living a "carbon-neutral" lifestyle) seem to me to be very much open to debate.

    In my view, the impact of the film is somewhat reduced by the occasional personal vignettes about Gore's upbringing, his son's serious accident, and his sister's death. I suspect that they were inserted in order to personalize Gore, much the same way that family shots and personal stories are inserted into football games. That's fine, but to me, they were intrusions that were very nearly non sequiturs.

    On the other hand, one of the interesting things about the film is that it does indeed personalize Gore. I voted for him in 2000, though with no real enthusiasm, and I've always seen him as an earnest but really boring gasbag. Watching him in this film changed that for me. He's clearly a guy with a passion for this issue; further, he's clearly intelligent and articulate.

    The film-as-film is very well done. At first thought, the idea of a video of a guy giving a PowerPoint slide show seems like a very bad one for a film, but the director and camera people pull it off. It's well paced, cleverly staged, well lighted, etc. Lectures can be interesting, and this film demonstrates that.

    I thought the film was well worth seeing. There is a lot to think about here, and it's a well-conceived and well-executed film, which probably does deserve its Oscar nomination. It has limitations, but I'm glad I bought it, and I recommend it.
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  • John Stuart Walker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Unavoidable
    Reviewed in Spain on January 16, 2013
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    A must in everyone's DVD collection.
    Global warming is a problem worldwide and we all must face it. The reality of it, the inevitable current events, and the disastrous consequences of not facing facts and their plausible solutions.
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  • luigi b.
    5.0 out of 5 stars un video imperdibile
    Reviewed in Italy on July 29, 2017
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    Sono un professore di Scienze in un liceo scientifico di Milano e ho visto per la prima volta questo film-documentario qualche anno fa. Lo trovo molto ben fatto, sia tecnicamente (per quel che ne capisco), sia dal punto di vista di come argomenta la tesi. Al Gore non è un semplice presentatore distaccato dei fatti di cui parla, ma un testimone oculare, che riporta la sua vita personale come esempio per fare capire a tutti quanto sia importante fermare subito il riscaldamento climatico globale che l'uomo sta causando, al di là di ogni ragionevole dubbio.
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  • DAVID PENNANT
    5.0 out of 5 stars This requires your immediate attention
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 3, 2025
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    I found this video formative when I first saw it and commend its well presented message. The issues are more pressing now than they were then. The film helped me change my lifestyle. For one thing the twenty thousand miles I did since on my pushbike to save car miles helped me survive five emergency operations in 2018. Note the irony: had I not been so fit I would have died which would have saved the world my carbon footprint since. Still we now have an electric car. Fun.
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  • Enrico Azzola
    5.0 out of 5 stars Acquistato per mia madre
    Reviewed in Italy on December 13, 2023
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    Mia mamma lo ritiene un film/libro essenziale, un must have da insegnare a scuola, io… mi fido di lei
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  • Ashley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative movie and easy to help people understand the issues that normally can ...
    Reviewed in Canada on August 19, 2017
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    Very informative movie and easy to help people understand the issues that normally can be a bit challenging to really grasp..
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