What year was "An Inconvenient Truth" released?

An Inconvenient Truth was released in 2006. The documentary, directed by Davis Guggenheim, follows former U.S. vice president Al Gore as he presents evidence and arguments about human-caused global warming.

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2006, before receiving its wider theatrical release later that year. Its structure grew out of Gore’s traveling climate presentation, combining lecture material with charts, scientific visuals, personal history and commentary about environmental policy.

The documentary became a major cultural event and won Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature and Best Original Song. It also helped bring climate-change discussion to a broad mainstream audience. Viewers sometimes confuse the film’s release year with the publication date of related books or with its 2017 sequel, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power. Those are separate releases; the original documentary belongs to 2006.