Crash Course
Crash Course Literature # 401: 1984 by George Orwell, Part 1
In which John Green returns for a dystopian new season of Crash Course Literature! He starts with George Orwell's classic look at the totalitarian state that could be in post-war England. Winston Smith is under the eye of Big Brother and...
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature #402: 1984 by George Orwell, Part 2
In this episode, John Green continues discussing George Orwell's 1984. Today he talks about what the novel 1984 has to say about what some have called today's surveillance society. We'll also look at the idea that language can be used as...
British Library
British Library: 20th Century: George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four
Professor John Bowen explores truth, fiction, repression, and freedom in George Orwell's iconic 1949 novel, "Nineteen Eighty-Four". The film is shot at Senate House in London, formerly the Ministry of Information, and the building on...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: 1984: Analysis
Watch Shmoop's quirky summary of George Orwell's 1984. [3:38]