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.

"Orwell: 2+2=5" led all films with seven nominations for the 2025 Critics Choice Documentary Awards, which announced its nominees on Tuesday morning. The documentary by Raoul Peck (director of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Family melodramas, social media thrillers, and zombie drag queens are among the best new indie films to check out this month.

George Orwell's writings warning of the dangers of totalitarian and authoritarian states gave the English language the term "Orwellian." A new documentary called "Orwell: 2+2=5” argues that Orwell's ...

Edmond O'Brien and Jan Sterling during the filming of a 1956 adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 Harry Todd / Fox Photos / Getty Images In recent years, some conservative American groups have adopted ...