In an interview, Raoul Peck explains why he interspersed the writer’s story with footage of current events, including footage of President Donald Trump and his supporters.

Inspired by a true story of survival.

A new film argues that, in an era of rising authoritarianism, audiences have become too numb to the speculative force of ...

Seventy-five years ago this month, George Orwell’s indelible dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four” was published to immediate acclaim. Orwell, born Eric Blair, would not live to see the work’s ...

George Orwell is a widely read and taught dystopian novel, dealing heavily with themes of censorship and government ...

After last year’s Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, documentary veteran Raoul Peck returns with another sociopolitical exploration of history and its relation to the present. His focus this time, with the ...

Orwell himself could be sentimental about his longing to escape (“Thinking always of my island in the Hebrides,” he’d once written in his wartime diary) or wonderfully blunt. In the aftermath of ...

It has been 76 years since "1984," George Orwell's warning about government control, censorship and the corruption of language, was first published. The organizations behind Banned Books Week based ...