His novel “1984” captured the tactics of totalitarianism back in 1949. A startling new documentary from Raoul Peck looks at Orwell’s life.

“I told Steven, ‘We have to do this film. This is not a why. It’s a why not,’” Laurent Bouzereau says of his conversations with the ‘Jaws’ director. By Beatrice Verhoeven Deputy Awards Editor Turns ...