Nineteen Eighty-Four - Adaptations and Derived Works

Adaptations and Derived Works

Film, television, and stage direct adaptations

• 1984, 1953 CBS television broadcast in the Westinghouse Studio One series
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, the 1954 BBC Television programme
• 1984, the 1956 film
• Theatre 625: The World of George Orwell: 1984
• Nineteen Eighty-Four, the 1984 film
• 1984, a 2005 opera
• 1984, the 201 stage adaptation by Canadian playwright David Elendune
• 1984, adapted by Michael Gene Sullivan, produced by the Actor's Gang Theatre

Literature

• The genre of dystopian fiction
• Orwell's Revenge (1994), by Peter W. Huber
• 1985, by Anthony Burgess
• 1985: What Happens After Big Brother Dies, by Gyorgy Dalos
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
• Little Brother (2008), by Cory Doctorow
• "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison

Cinema

• Brazil (1985)

Comics

• 2024 (A comic) By Ted Rall
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier by Alan Moore

Radio

• Nineteen Ninety-Four (1985), a BBC Radio 4 comedy series and book (1986)

Television

• 1984, a famous Apple Computer advertisement
• Big Brother, a reality TV show based on the premise that the audience acts as Big Brother by watching the participants at all times
• Room 101, a BBC television series

Video Games

• Half-Life 2
• Gluddle by Creative Heroes

Art

• Undenk
• Good Morning, Mr. Orwell (1984) by Nam June Paik

Bands

• Big Brovaz
• Doublethink
• Innerpartysystem
• The Thought Criminals

Music albums

• 1984 (1973) by Hugh Hopper
• Diamond Dogs (1974) by David Bowie
• 1984 (1981) by Rick Wakeman
• 1984 (1981) by Anthony Phillips
• 1984 (For The Love Of Big Brother) (1984) by Eurythmics
• Obsolete (1998) by Fear Factory
• The Battle of Los Angeles (1999) by Rage Against The Machine
• Decemberunderground (2006) by AFI
• Year Zero (2007) by Nine Inch Nails
• Welcome to 1984 (2007) by Jens Wennberg
• The Resistance (2009) by Muse
• DoubleThink (2010) by Akala
• Unpersons (2011) by The Pack A.D.

Songs

• "Big Brother" (1972) by Stevie Wonder
• "Hey Big Brother" (1971) by Rare Earth
• "Monitor" (1981) by Siouxsie and the Banshees
• "Big Brother's Still Watching" by The Tubes
• "1984" by Spirit
• "Sons of 1984" by Todd Rundgren
• "Dream Police" by Cheap Trick
• "Boot Stamping on a Human Face Forever" by Bad Religion
• "Nineteen-Forty-Eightish" by Roy Harper and Jimmy Page
• "A Bright Cold Day in April" (2009) by Sonic Boom Six
• "Wake Up (It's 1984)" by Oingo Boingo
• "Thought Criminal" by Velvet Acid Christ
• "Talk Shows on Mute" (2004) by Incubus.
• "2+2=5" (2003) by Radiohead
• "Doublespeak" by Thrice
• "Welcome to 1984" by Anti-Flag
• "Two-Minutes Hate" (2004) by Betty X
• "The City Of Airstrip One" (2009) by Everything Is Made in China
• "1984" (2009) by Black Swan
• "1984" by The Kooks
• "Faceless" by Behind Enemy Lines
• "Google Street View (It's Like 1984)" by Tim Minchin
• "Citizen Erased" by Muse
• "Watch Yourself" by Ministry.
• "1984" by Massacre Palestina
• "1984" (1984) by New Model Army
• "Testify" by Rage Against the Machine
• "Electric Eye" by Judas Priest
• "Winston Smith Takes It On The Jaw" (1984) by Utopia
• "Two Plus Two Equals Five" by Star One
• "Feed The Machine" by Red
• "1984" by Chaotic Alliance
• "1984" by Anais Mitchell
• "Know What It Means" by Project 86
• "Metaphysics of the Hangman" by The Ocean
• "Big Brother's Watching" by Blue Meanies
• "Big Brother" by H.U.M.A.N.W.I.N.E.
• "Orwell 1984" By Eminent Remains
• "1977" by The Clash
• "Winston smith" by Dogs
• "Victory Gin" by The Menzingers
• "1984" by Adestria