A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned - a razor-edged fairy tale for adults that records the evolution from revolution against tyranny to a totalitarianism just as terrible. When Animal Farm was first published, Stalinist Russia was seen as its target. Today it is devastatingly clear that wherever and whenever freedom is attacked, under whatever banner, the cutting clarity and savage comedy of George Orwell’s masterpiece have a meaning and message still ferociously fresh. DVD: George Orwell's classic fable brought to life by the magic of Jim Henson's Creature Shop and featuring the voices of Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Pete Postlethwaite, Paul Schofield, Patrick Stewart, Julia Ormond and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.