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 ...

For about half an hour or so, Raoul Peck's documentary "Orwell: 2+2=5" is amazingly restrained in the way it deals with author George Orwell, his seminal dystopian novel "1984" and its connections to ...

Orwell 2+2=5 tracks the continued relevance of George Orwell's political observations in today's turbulent world.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I was growing up, the lessons of 1984 – the dystopian novel by George Orwell – were all thought to pertain to the Soviet ...

In the new documentary “Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5,” filmmaker Raoul Peck explores the writer George Orwell’s life and how his experiences informed his ideas and his writing. The film intersperses clips from ...

Well, if all that sounds eerily familiar, a new film called 2+2=5 uses Orwell’s words over archive footage and recent news clips to show how much 1984 reveals about today’s world.

Raoul Peck explores the radical power of art, arguing that films, stories and images can cut through manipulation, re-engage ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When he was 19 years old, still eons away from the essays, the novels, and the pseudonym that would grant him literary immortality ...

After the Oscar-winning I Am Not Your Negro (2017) used James Baldwin as a cipher to understand today’s race relations in the US, director Raoul Peck turns to another hallowed 20th century writer.

Kanye West discussed his decision to support the "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) movement in the new In Whose Name? documentary. "I'm literally inside of current slavery and bein' like accosted by ...