Many books and movies have attempted to follow Nineteen Eighty-Four’s depiction of the future, but V for Vendetta chooses to take a more uplifting and decidedly more theatrical approach.Britain ...

Americans still read George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” 75 years after it was first published on June 8, 1949. At the time, the year 1984 was far in the future — now it’s 40 years ...

Nineteen Eighty-Four takes place in an alternate version of England ruled by a totalitarian regime known only as The Party. It follows Winston Smith (John Hurt), an ordinary London bureaucrat who ...