Through archival and contemporary newsreels, photos, and films, Raoul Peck explores the legacy of George Orwell’s iconic novel 1984. Aided by excerpts from the author’s various writings—read in voiceover by Damian Lewis—the filmmaker reflects on authoritarianism past and present.

Armed with the prescient works of one of totalitarianism’s most ruthless critics, Raoul Peck finds history repeating itself in this laser-focused documentary. Countering political skulduggery with bracing directness, Orwell: 2+2=5 offers the antidote to a paranoid age of misinformation.