While people often bemoan the state of modern movies, the documentary is booming, with more and more high-profile films making important, far-reaching points. In the past year alone there’s been the likes of 13TH, O.J.: Made in America and I Am Not Your Negro (and that’s saying nothing of the explosion on TV led by the likes of Making a Murderer). Of course, there have many great documentaries across the history of film, but the industry is now at a peak and perhaps none has been quite as successful – both in terms of commercial attention and in making its argument – as An Inconvenient Truth.
Al Gore’s look at the threat of climate change cut through a lot of confusion over what exactly the effect of increasing greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere actually had on our planet, managing to shift public opinion and eventually having a major impact on political policy. ...
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