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Which of the following films would you prefer?
1) Tagline ‘An inconvenient truth’
Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced.
If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his "traveling global warming show" Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media - funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency" out to ordinary citizens before it's too late.
With 2005, the worst storm season ever experienced in America, just behind us, it seems we may be reaching a tipping point - and Gore pulls no punches in explaining the dire situation. Interspersed with the bracing facts and future predictions is the story of Gore's personal journey: from an idealistic college student who first saw a massive environmental crisis looming; to a young Senator facing a harrowing family tragedy that altered his perspective; to the man who almost became President but instead returned to the most important cause of his life - convinced that there is still time to make a difference.
With wit, smart words and hope, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ultimately brings home Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenge facing our global civilisation.
2) Tagline ‘March of the penguins’
In the inhospitable coldness on the fringes of Antarctica, one imperturbable creature, the emperor penguin, defies the most adverse conditions imaginable. Luc Jacquet, the French biologist and filmmaker, spent an entire year observing and recording the unusual cycle of these fascinating birds, their elegance under water when hunting fish, their clumsy waddle as they march for miles across the ice, their courtship dances, the hatching of their young and their constant and often cruel battle against adversity in an attempt to survive. Life at the edge and images that will take your breath away.
3) Tagline ‘Deep Blue’
More than two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water, but we still know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the deep oceans. Deep Blue presents one of the last great mysteries our planet has to offer - the world below the surface of the oceans. The journey takes us from the shallow coral reefs across the inhospitable shorelines of Antarctica out into the vast open oceans and down into the depths of the deepest oceans into the mysterious, perpetual darkness. Spectacular shots of dolphins playing, sharks and whales hunting interspersed with polar bears fishing and armies of crabs racing over the beach. The camera collects shots right through enormous shoals of fish and penetrates the darkest depths of the oceans where bizarre illuminated fish, worms and jellyfish regularly produce colorful firework shows. Deep Blue is one of the most unusual and expensive projects ever realized in the field of natural history documentaries and provides an insight into life in the oceans in all its stunning beauty and its unrestrained passions.
With wit, smart words and hope, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH ultimately brings home Gore's persuasive argument that we can no longer afford to view global warming as a political issue - rather, it is the biggest moral challenge facing our global civilisation.
2) Tagline ‘March of the penguins’
In the inhospitable coldness on the fringes of Antarctica, one imperturbable creature, the emperor penguin, defies the most adverse conditions imaginable. Luc Jacquet, the French biologist and filmmaker, spent an entire year observing and recording the unusual cycle of these fascinating birds, their elegance under water when hunting fish, their clumsy waddle as they march for miles across the ice, their courtship dances, the hatching of their young and their constant and often cruel battle against adversity in an attempt to survive. Life at the edge and images that will take your breath away.
3) Tagline ‘Deep Blue’
More than two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water, but we still know more about the surface of the Moon than we do about the deep oceans. Deep Blue presents one of the last great mysteries our planet has to offer - the world below the surface of the oceans. The journey takes us from the shallow coral reefs across the inhospitable shorelines of Antarctica out into the vast open oceans and down into the depths of the deepest oceans into the mysterious, perpetual darkness. Spectacular shots of dolphins playing, sharks and whales hunting interspersed with polar bears fishing and armies of crabs racing over the beach. The camera collects shots right through enormous shoals of fish and penetrates the darkest depths of the oceans where bizarre illuminated fish, worms and jellyfish regularly produce colorful firework shows. Deep Blue is one of the most unusual and expensive projects ever realized in the field of natural history documentaries and provides an insight into life in the oceans in all its stunning beauty and its unrestrained passions.