Today is Blog Action Day and the focus of 2009’s Blog Action Day is Climate Change.  We obviously care a lot about about climate change here at TakePart and often blog about it and what we can all do to make our planet a healthier one.  I thought for my part today I would share five films with you that we’ve written about before and that all discuss climate change and what we can do to make a difference.

Take a look! Let me know if I missed your favorite and please do learn how you can TakePart in the fight against global warming.

5) The Age of Stupid:

“The Age of Stupid may not be my favorite film on climate change but that doesn’t mean I don’t recognize it’s importance.  The film is a unique take on global warming and begins in the year 2055.  Our guide in the future is an old man played by Pete Postlethwaite and as he tells us about the future we learn things are pretty grim.  The world has been devastated and in trying to understand what went wrong, our guide looks at ‘archive’ footage from 2008.”

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4) The 11th Hour:

Not only is Leonardo DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour about climate change but its DVDs are biodegradable. AWESOME.

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3) Everything’s Cool:

“Everything’s Cool? Well, after watching Judith Helfand and Daniel Gold’s documentary about global warming and the history of America’s perception of climate change, I’m not so sure. I’d been wanting to see the doc for quite some time and this weekend finally sat down to see how this film would differ from that other big global warming picture.

It turns out that Everything’s Cool is quite different. While Gore and Guggenheim take more time explaining the science of our changing climate, Helfand and Gold look at the political reasons why Americans seem to be in denial that global warming is even happening. ”

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2) Soylent Green:

Dystopian cinema often offers ideas of what will happen to our planet if we don’t get the environment back on track.  One of my favorites that does this is Soylent Green.

“Charlton Heston’s detective is a great example of how we need more people to expose the things that are corrupt and wrong in our society. He is the Al Gore of the future in many ways--working to reveal the secrets of the decaying environment and unnatural food sources. As we learn more and more about what we’re all doing to the environment and how the food we eat isn’t really food, this film and Robert Thorn become more and more relevant.”

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1) An Inconvenient Truth

The ultimate and my favorite climate change movie, An Inconvenient Truth changed everything when it came to climate change and made Al Gore my (and many others’) hero.

Here at TakePart we honor the film with our Inconvenient Truth of the Day series.