Animal Farm (1954)
Dec 14, 2000Animation/Talking Animal Social Satire
Animated adaptation of George Orwell's fable that was intended as a satire of the Soviet Union. Being rendered as cutsie children's animation necessarily bluntens the book's bite
George Orwell
1984 (1956)
Jan 13, 2014Dystopia
The first film adaptation of the classic George Orwell dystopian work. The brilliance of the book only comes through in occasional moments but mostly the film befalls the leaden hand of director Michael Anderson
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
May 8, 2002Dystopia
Superb adaptation of the George Orwell novel that was actually shot in the months and year that the book takes place. Orwell’s future is imagined as a bleak post-War dystopia given life by a superlative cast
1984 (2023)
May 17, 2024Dystopian Future
A new adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984. In this case, the film was shot in Russia and imagines the world as a full-on dystopian future quite unlike any of the previous film versions
Animal Farm (2025)
Jun 6, 2026Animation/Talking Animal Social Satire
Actor Andy Serkis directs an adaptation of George Orwell’s satiric talking animals fable. However, the decision to update the story comes unstuck in spectacularly awful ways