Raoul Peck, who will be at the Cannes Film Festival next month with his George Orwell documentary, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” delivered a blistering warning about the global rise of autocracy this week at ...

In the new documentary "Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5," filmmaker Raoul Peck dives into how Orwell's experiences informed his ideas and ...

When he was 19 years old, still eons away from the essays, the novels, and the pseudonym that would grant him literary immortality, Eric Arthur Blair went east and joined the Indian Imperial Police in ...

There are two ways to think about “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” the great dystopian novel of totalitarianism that George Orwell wrote on the Scottish isle of Jura and published in 1949, six months before ...

At this point, it sometimes feels like a cliché or reductive to say that our modern world is like 1984, George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel released in 1949, or to say things have become ...

This year’s crop of top documentary contenders includes films about racism, war, America’s corrupt prison system and George ...