The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film documentary created produced and narrated b...

The 11th Hour is a 2007 feature film documentary, created, produced narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, on the state of the natural environment. It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen Nadia Conners financed by Adam Lewis, Pierre André Senizergues Doyle Brunson, distributed by Warner Independent Pictures. Its world premiere was at the 2007 60th Annual Cannes Film Festival (May 16-27, 2007) it was released on August 17, 2007, in the year in which the Fourth Assessment Report of the United Nations global warming panel IPCC was published about a year after Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, a movie-documentary-slideshow about global warming.Plot With contributions from over 50 politicians, scientists, environmental activists, including former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, physicist Stephen Hawking, Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai, journalist Paul Hawken, the film documents the grave problems facing the planet's life systems. Global warming, deforestation, mass species extinction, depletion of the oceans' habitats are all addressed. The film's premise is that the future of humanity is in jeopardy. The film proposes potential solutions to these problems by calling for restorative action by the reshaping rethinking of global human activity through technology, social responsibility conservation. Scientists environmental advocates such as David Orr, David Suzuki, Paul Stamets, Gloria Flora paint a portrait for a radically new different future in which it is not humanity's intent to dominate the planet's life systems, but to mimic coexist with them. Quotes “ Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity ... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet. ” —Leonardo DiCaprio. Criticism Patrick Moore, an early member of Greenpeace, now supported by the Nuclear Energy Institute, who later rejected traditional environmentalism, directly criticized Leonardo DiCaprio the film The 11th Hour in an article for the Vancouver Sun on August 29, 2007 titled ‘An Inconvenient Fact’ “ DiCaprio's movie, The 11th Hour, is another example of anti-forestry scare tactics, this time said to be "brilliant terrifying" by James Christopher of the London Times. Maybe so, but instead of surrendering to the terror, keep in mind that there are solutions to the challenges of climate, our forests are among them. This film should be a good, clear reminder for us to put the science before the Hollywood hype. ” —Patrick Moore, in the August 29, 2007 issue of The Vancouver Sun, Release Box Office The film generated $8,160,853 from four locations in its first weekend of release. See also - An Inconvenient Truth - another documentary about the same subject - Global warming - the subject of both documentaries - List of documentaries References 1. We all have to... DiCaprio quote Retrieved on April 12, 2007 2. An Inconvenient Fact article by Dr. Patrick Moore Retrieved on August 29, 2007 3. iW BOT: Hot in Theaters Retrieved on September 5, 2007 This page uses content from the movies page on the English version of Wikipedia & is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. This list of authors can be seen in the page history. Wildscreen.tv disclaims any & all warranties as to the accuracy o. reliability of the content. Permission is granted to copy, distribute &/or modify the biographical information on this page under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 o. any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.