Upon realizing her generation won’t have a future unless the world’s politicians act now on climate change, then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg skipped school in August 2018 to protest outside the Swedish parliament. What started as a one-person strike soon gained global momentum. In this documentary, VICE follows Thunberg and the organizers of the school strikes for climate as they were cementing a worldwide movement ahead of their first global protest, which took place on March 15, 2019. It was the biggest climate strike in history, with up to 1.6 million students in more than 125 countries.
