Exploring Climate Change in Film

The following films are available for lending to help you and your students consider what Global Climate Change might mean to you.

Global Warming: The Signs and the Science

A PBS Home Video documentary takes viewers across America to meet people from every walk of life: Nebraska farmers, Colorado cattle ranchers, small-town doctors, Louisiana oilmen, Maryland school kids, New Hampshire townsfolk, Detroit inner-city teenagers, New York City bike couriers and Florida policemen. Their words and stories uncover both the reality of climate change and their responses to its various manifestations. (approximately 1 hour)

The Great Warming

Narrated by Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves, The Great Warming is a dramatic film about climate change that sweeps around the world to reveal how a changing climate is affecting the lives of people everywhere.
(approximately 1 hour)

Too Hot Not To Handle

Heat waves. Melting glaciers. Rising sea levels. Catastrophic storms. Migrating viruses. Population displacement. Over the past 100 years, the mass consumption of fossil fuels, especially in America, has contributed to a dangerous warming of the earth that has adversely impacted the way we live. The cautionary documentary TOO HOT NOT TO HANDLE offers a guide to the effects of global warming in the United States.
(approximately 1 hour)

An Inconvenient Truth: A Global Warning

An Inconvenient Truth makes the compelling case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don’t act now. Former Vice President, Al Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way: often humorous, frequently emotional, and always fascinating.
(approximately 2.5 hours)

Also Available:

• A 5-minute EcoLogical Solutions Info Ad on Global Warming
  (Vermont Agency of Natural Resources)

• A 4-minute Climate Movie…with a Happy Ending
  (RenewUS.org and others)

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