Producer of Gore’s Film to Distribute Free Copies Via Web Site

A producer of former Vice President Al Gore's film about global warming has arranged to have free copies of it given to science teachers through a Web site, after a leading education group made a controversial decision not to distribute the documentary directly to its members.

Laurie David, the co-producer of "An Inconvenient Truth," said this week that the first 50,000 teachers who request the movie for use in their classrooms would be given DVD copies, on a first-come, first-served basis. Information on obtaining the movie is posted at www.participate.net , a Web site maintained by Participant Productions, a Beverly Hills, Calif.-based film-production company that seeks to raise...