Al Gore
Al Gore is an actor, born 1948.
A filmography is an odd thing to have when the day job was the vice presidency, and Gore's is odder than most. He represented Tennessee in the House from 1977 to 1985 and in the Senate from 1985 to 1993, served as vice president under Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001, and lost the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush. Everything on this page happens alongside or after that.
Most of the credits are archive footage, which is what happens to a public figure. He appears as himself, sometimes uncredited, in Fahrenheit 9/11, Before the Flood, Race for the White House and a stack of documentaries that needed a clip. Those are not performances and it would be silly to treat them as any.
Two things here are. The first is An Inconvenient Truth in 2006, essentially a filmed lecture, and the reason it worked is that Gore is a genuinely good explainer: patient with a graph, willing to be boring if the number requires it, content to let the material carry the drama rather than his delivery. An Inconvenient Sequel followed in 2017. He holds an International Emmy Founders Award.
The second is the comedy. He voiced himself on Futurama and again in Futurama: Bender's Big Score, and played himself on Bupkis, and he is funnier in those than a former vice president has any obligation to be, largely because he commits to the joke being on him.
Movies (10)
- The One (2001)
- An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)
- Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
- An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
- Before the Flood (2016)
- The Words That Built America (2017)
- Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food (2023)
- 4:44 Last Day on Earth (2012)
- Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama (2009)
TV (4)
Where to start with Al Gore
An Inconvenient Truth is the only thing here you actually need to see, and it is better than its reputation as a slideshow suggests. The film is a lecture, and Gore is the rare public speaker who can hold a room on evidence rather than volume.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is the update, more concerned with the politics of the decade between them than with the science, and worth it if the first film landed for you.
Then go sideways. Futurama was using him as a voice years before the documentary, and Futurama: Bender's Big Score gives that joke a whole film to run in. Bupkis is the most recent version of the same instinct.
Everything else on the page, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Before the Flood included, uses him as footage rather than as a person. Watch those two for their own sake, not for him.