From their first time reading Orwell's "1984" to what the term "Orwellian" means, five authors share thoughts on censorship ...

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

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

George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984,” first published in 1949, anticipated our present moment all too well. As part of Winston Smith’s harrowing “re-education” process at the euphemistically named ...

In an interview, Raoul Peck explains why he interspersed the writer’s story with footage of current events, including footage ...

August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks ...

Still, generative A.I. has been making its way into more and more ostensibly nonfiction films, with varying degrees of transparency. The Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville gave no indication that ...

Orwell’s real fear was never the machine. It was how power could use it to erase dissent, rewrite truth, and make obedience ...

On January 8, 2021, Donald Trump Jr. took to X (then Twitter) to declare that his father’s suspension from the platform was a sign that “We are living in Orwell’s ‘1984.’ Free speech no longer exists ...