10. The 11th Hour
Site rank 3, IMDb rank 4; Overall Score = 7
Directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners
Leonardo DiCaprio’s 2007 film shows us a grim perspective of our industrial civilization and all the damage we managed to inflict on our planet. The global changes we witness every day are just a part of a process that could very well wipe the humans off Earth. The film, featuring interviews with various politicians and scientists, including Mikhail Gorbachev and Stephen Hawking, presents an interesting thesis. It claims that the current crisis isn’t so much one of technology, but rather the crisis of leadership — and that human society possesses the technology to reduce our impact on the environment by more than 90%. All that prevents us from using it is the lack of a political leadership.
