It’s fitting that Raoul Peck’s latest documentary, “Orwell: 2+2=5,” is hitting theaters across the country during this year’s Banned Books Week. Since its publication in 1949, George Orwell’s ...

His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...

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 ...

What compelled a widower dying from tuberculosis in his mid-40s, with an adopted son in his care, to expend the last days of ...