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The 11th Hour |  | Director: Nadia Conners
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Thom Hartmann, Kenny Ausubel, James Woolsey, Wangari Maathai
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
Buy New: $4.99
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Rating:  76 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 95 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 6 x 0.2
MPN: 085391183518
UPC: 085391183518
EAN: 0085391183518
ASIN: B00005JPXA
Release Date: April 8, 2008
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Product Description
Explores the current conditions of humans and nature on Earth, and offers solutions and technologies for the future of the planet.
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Comparisons to Al Gore's Oscar-winning slide show will be inevitable, but there's a key difference between the two documentaries. An Inconvenient Truth was aimed at the PBS set, while Leonardo DiCaprio's The 11th Hour combines a traditional structure with a more MTV-friendly pace. Of course, neither was made by these public figures. Davis Guggenheim directed the former, while Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen are behind the latter. DiCaprio serves as producer, co-writer, and narrator (the three previously worked on the short films Global Warming and Water Planet). Their first feature combines a diverse array of interviews with a dizzying variety of images, both soothing and alarming (droughts and hurricanes vs. serene sunsets and playful polar bears). Speakers include former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, and progressive CEO Ray Anderson, hero of The Corporation. Granted, there's no obvious youth appeal in these subjects, but the presence of the Titanic heartthrob-turned-Scorsese star, who keeps his on-screen narration to a tasteful minimum, plus atmospheric tracks from Sigur Rós, Coldplay and Mogwai seems likely to attract a younger crowd. And that seems to be the point, since The 11th Hour is, at heart, a call to arms. It begins by taking a look at the causes of global warming before exploring solutions, from eating organic to building with solar power. There isn't a ton of new information for environmental experts, but DiCaprio and his team have assembled a thought-provoking primer for neophytes and potential activists. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Let us NOT destroy the Earth. June 25, 2010
I Love Yahweh Yeshua Christ! (Brooklyn, New York)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The 11th Hour is a documentary that have the same environmental messages like in Michael Jackson's song called: Earth Song. This documentary have human industrial history and the destructive affects it have on our lives and other creatures' lives. This documentary covers the bad environmental problems in great verbal and even visual scientific ways in which we better listen and FIX these problems NOW. These problems are Air Pollution, Deforestation of Plants and Polluting the Water. Global Warming is a 100% REAL and we MUST FIX these problems by using other reusable energy like Air, Sun and Water that is mention in this documentary. I personally recycle paper, cardboards, plastics and all cans. God Jesus HaMashiach/Christ have a message for ALL those who are Destroying the Earth like the BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the message is in the Holy Bible's verse in Revelations 11:18 which says: And the nations were angry, and thy WRATH is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be Judged, and that thou shouldest give Reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that Fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest DESTROY THEM WHICH DESTROY THE EARTH.
 Not impressed! June 22, 2010
Andrine (New Zealand)
Sorry - but did expect this to be a lot more informative than it was....
Nothing new or eye opening that the general population of this faltering world is not already aware of!
Fell asleep half way through - uninspired.....
Well-Researched - June 8, 2010
Loyd E. Eskildson (Phoenix, AZ.)
Also easy to understand and hard to ignore, this is a positive eye-opener if one is still sitting on the fence. It also inadvertantly reveals a weakness of Democracy - inability to act until usually too late. Would like to see the material/data updated.
Amazing doumentary! Must see February 10, 2010
C. Lopreto
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The 11th Hour is AWAKENING! They should do screenings at schools and colleges. Attention school teachers and college prefessors. This is so important to everyone. We need to wake up and get involved!
It's ESSENTIAL VIEWING!
Great job!
 confused November 11, 2009
Michael
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The only thing that I have to say is that I do not understand making a movie on global warming and having the main speaker (Leonardo Dicaprio) is someone that works in one of the worst industries when it comes to trash and pollution. Why would you have someone that is always flying around in planes and works for an industry that builds sets then tears them down and throws them in the trash be the main speaker instead of having a reputable scientist? The only reason that I can think is to attract a larger audience, but at a price of doing exactly what they say is bad for the enviroment. I would have rather seen Ed Begley in this movie at least he lives the lifestyle. The movie itself was ok but there are a lot better resources and movies out there than this one, but if you are interested on this topic then I would recommend it because any/as much information is always good. This is not a comment to bash the movie or Leonardo Dicaprio, I just think it should have been thought out a little bit better.
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