In hard times, we need to have the courage to say: two and two equals four.” So insists Raoul Peck, the Oscar-nominated ...

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 ...

George Orwell was dying when he wrote 1984 in the late 1940s on the desolate Isle of Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Tuberculosis ravaged his body, and typing thousands of words a day only weakened ...

TheWrap magazine: The “Orwell: 2+2=5” filmmaker emphasizes the lesson’s told are bigger than just one leader and that the tools for controlling people “never change” Sometimes, a film about the past ...

People think they remember “1984.” They remember Big Brother's face on the poster. They remember "War is Peace" and the vague dread of surveillance. But ask them about the mechanics — how ...