Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four streams in the US on Kanopy, and free with ads on Tubi TV, as of October 5, 2026.

George Orwell's terrifying vision comes to the screen.

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Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.