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List Price: $4.99 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 2141
Released: April 8, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Environmental documentary 11th HOUR resides at the polar opposite of escapist summer fare its mission to firmly confront viewers about the indelible human footprint that humans have left on this planet and the catastrophic effects of environmental neglect and abuse. Produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio and ably directed by Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Peterson the documentary doesn't get much fancier than talking heads news footage and the occasional animated illustration but its message is potent and delivered effectively.The first hour of the film is essentially a horror story recounting the myriad sins perpetrated against the environment (pollution deforestation over-mining resources) the reasons behind it (corporate greed faulty public policy bad leadership ignorance) and what it means for the human race. Thankfully the last third of the movie tilts the mood upward with a spirited discussion of solutions offered by a crack team of scientists designers and thinkers. Stirring visions of alternate energy sources diversified transportation enlightened governmental agendas sustainable homes and cities and most importantly more conscious consumer choices leave viewers with the palpable feeling that change is both necessary and possible. If the "eleventh hour" for our planet is drawing near this admirable film points confidently towards a new dawn.System Requirements:Running Time: 124 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/NATURE & WILDLIFE Rating: PG UPC: 085391183518 Manufacturer No: 118351
Description of The 11th Hour:
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
The 11th Hour Reviews:
confused 
2009-11-11 - 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.
Great Documentary, great price 
2009-11-09 - I love this documentary. I've loaned it to many of my friends and family because I think it's so important to see. I highly recommend it.
Sensational
2009-10-22 - This is information all of humanity needs to act on, if we are to save ourselves and the biosphere from our abuse
and collective neglect.
Conrad Claborne
Very happy with order!
2009-09-02 - The dvd I purchaed was in excellent condition! Price was great and I love it! Thank you!
Are There Two Versions Of This DVD? 
2009-08-21 - After reading two of the "one star" reviews, I can't help wondering if there's an Evil Twin of "The 11th Hour" out there making the rounds. Otherwise, those two reviews make no sense. Neither of them even comes close to expressing the essence of what I saw on the dvd I watched. It's true that the film makes greater use of interviews than visuals - and that would be a defect if there were not already an abundance of images in the public domain showing melting glaciers, rising sea levels, deforestation and extreme weather. It would also have been a defect if the people being interviewed had been incoherent or overly academic in their delivery - but they weren't. Each one offered ideas and studied opinions on various aspects of the problems facing us from the perspective of their particular field. The film is far more about offering solutions than simply re-stating the enormous problems facing us. The one thing, more than anything else, I got out of this film - the one thing I hadn't really gotten from any other source - is that we already have the technology we need to begin moving away from fossil fuels. That technology is not still in the development stage; nor is it 20 or 30 years away - it's already here, and ready to be adapted to the scale needed to make it a practical reality. What's missing is the political will to make the shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources. And that's basically what the film was about: identifying the thing that's keeping humanity tied to the fossil fuel treadmill that's slowing making the planet uninhabitable for humans and most other species currently alive. It's not rocket science; it's the two ancient bugaboos of political science: "creature of habit" and "status quo." We don't want to be bothered just yet. There was a quote in the film attributed to Winston Churchill which just about says it all: "The Americans always do the right thing - after they've tried everything else first." We may not have time this time to try everything else first.
