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The 11th Hour

Year:
Duration:
USA:95 min
Genres:
Documentary
IMDB rate:
7.3
Director:
Leila Conners
Awards:
3 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2007-10-10
Earnings
Opening Weekend: $60,853 (USA) (19 August 2007)
Gross: $703,464 (USA) (30 September 2007)
Cast
Actor
Character
Leonardo DiCaprio
Himself - Narrator
Kenny Ausubel
Himself - Founder, Bioneers
Thom Hartmann
Himself - Author, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
Wangari Maathai
Herself - Founder, Greenbelt Movement, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Sandra Postel
Herself - Director, Global Water Policy Project
Paul Stamets
Himself - Mycologist, Author, Mycelium Running
David Orr
Himself - Chair, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College
Stephen Hawking
Himself - Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University
Oren Lyons
Himself - Faithkeeper, Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation, Haudenosaunee, Six Nations, Iroquois Confederacy
Andrew C. Revkin
Himself - Author & Science Reporter, New York Times (as Andy Revkin)
Sylvia Earle
Herself - Oceanographer, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society
Paul Hawken
Himself - Author, Environmentalist, Entrepreneur
Janine Benyus
Herself - Author, Biomimicry
Stuart Pimm
Himself - Professor of Conservation Ecology, Duke University
Paolo Soleri
Himself - Architect, Founder of Arcosanti
David Suzuki
Himself - Scientist, Environmentalist, Broadcaster
James Hillman
Himself - Psychologist
James Parks Morton
Himself - Dean Emeritus, The Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Nathan Gardels
Himself - Editor, New Perspectives Quarterly
Wes Jackson
Himself - President, The Land Institute
Joseph Tainter
Himself - Author, The Collapse of Complex Societies
Richard Heinberg
Himself - Author, The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
James Woolsey
Himself - VP, Booz Allen Hamilton, Director, CIA, Central Intelligence Agency, 1993-1995
Vijay Vaitheeswaran
Himself - Energy & Environment Correspondent, The Economist
Brock Dolman
Himself - WATER Institute Director, Occidental Arts & Ecology Center
Stephen Schneider
Himself - Co-Director, Center for Environmental Science & Policy, Stanford University
Bill McKibben
Himself - Author, Founder, Stepitup07.org
Peter de Menocal
Himself - Associate Professor, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University (as Peter Demenocal)
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
Herself - International Chair, Inuit Circumpolar Conference
Ray Anderson
Himself - Founder, Interface, Inc.
Tim Carmichael
Himself - President, Coalition for Clean Air
Omar Freilla
Himself - Director, Green Worker Cooperatives
Wallace J. Nichols
Himself - Senior Scientist, The Ocean Conservancy
Diane Wilson
Herself - Author, An Unreasonable Woman
Andrew Weil
Himself - Director, Program for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona
Theo Colborn
Herself - President, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange
Jeremy Jackson
Himself - Oceanographer, Scripps Institute for Oceanography
Tzeporah Berman
Himself - Campaign Director & Founder, Forest Ethics
Gloria Flora
Herself - Director, Sustainable Obtainable Solutions
Mikhail Gorbachev
Himself - Founding President, Green Cross International, 1990 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Thomas Linzey
Himself - Executive Director, Community Environment Legal Defense Fund
Michel Gelobter
Himself - President, Redefining Progress
Lester Brown
Himself - President, Earth Policy Institute
Herman Daly
Himself - Professor, University of Maryland, Former Senior Economist, World Bank
Betsy Taylor
Herself - Founder, Center for the New American Dream
Wade Davis
Himself - Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society
Jerry Mander
Himself - Director, International Forum of Globalization
William McDonough
Himself - Architect, William McDonough & Partners (as Bill McDonough)
Bruce Mau
Himself - Creative Director, Bruce Mau Designs
John Todd
Himself - Ecological Designer
Rick Fedrizzi
Himself - President & CEO, US Green Building Council
Greg Watson
Himself - Vice President, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative
Leo Gerard
Himself - President, United Steel Workers International Union
Mathew Petersen
Himself - President & CEO, Global Green USA
Peter Warshall
Himself - Ecologist, Whole Earth Catalogue
Andy Lipkis
Himself - President & Founder, Tree People
David Attenborough
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George W. Bush
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Al Gore
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Brian Williams
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Goofs
In the caption describing a U.S. Senate hearing on oil company profits, one of the testifying companies is misspelled: "ExxonMobile." The correct spelling is ExxonMobil.
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An on-screen graphic refers to the "break" system of a train. It should be "brake".
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In the subtitles of an interview with Mikhail Gorbachev, the former USSR premier is translated as saying that because we have strained nature to the breaking point, "we must, the generations living now, must take a principal decision that we will act differently because the ecological crisis is global." Taking "a principal decision" is an odd turn of phrase, at best, in this context. Almost certainly, Gorbachev said "we must take a principled decision."
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Quotes
Thom Hartmann: Our biosphere is sick.
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Kenny Ausubel: When we all talk about "saving the environment" in a way it's misstated because the environment is going to survive. We are the ones who may not survive. Or we may survive in a world we don't particularly wanna live in.
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Stephen Hawking: One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available.
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