WBG+: WBG+ Presents: 1984 is a 1956 British black-and-white science fiction film, based on the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Released: March 6, 1956
Director: Michael Anderson
Producer: N. Peter Rathvon
Screenplay: Ralph Gilbert Bettison & William Templeton
Score: Malcolm Arnold
Cinematographer: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Editor: Bill Lewthwaite
Based on: Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwel

Starring:
Edmond O'Brien
Michael Redgrave
Jan Sterling

In the mid-1950s, a nuclear war devastated the Earth and gave rise to three powerful police superstates continually at war with one another: Oceania, ruled by the omnipresent Big Brother; Eurasia ruled by the communists, and finally East Asia ruled by a sub-branch of socialists.