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Dystopia movies/series/books guide
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantW0m6at
You're in for it now Tony
Registered: April 17, 2007
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dystopia: noun state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror

I'll probably work on a better way of formatting this, but here's (the start of) a list of dystopias. Where available on DVD or Blu-Ray I've marked with the most advanced media available. Additions, suggestions, comments, etc. welcome.

1984 - Five versions:
1953 (TV) (Studio One) (Part of the "Studio One Anthology")
1954 (TV) (BBC Sunday-Night Theatre)
1956
1984
2010
Brave New World - Two versions:
1980
1998
Æon Flux - Two versions
1991 (series)
2005
Batman Beyond (series)
Bubblegum Crisis / Bubblegum Crash / Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 (series)*
The Clonus Horror
Demolition Man
Equilibrium
Ergo Proxy (series)
Fahrenheit 451 - Two versions:
1966
2010
The Island
Kallocain (miniseries)
Logan's Run - Two versions:
1976
2010
THX 1138
Wonderful Days (aka Sky Blue)

* A.D. Police, A.D. Police Files, Parasite Dolls also inhabit this "universe"

Honorable Mentions
A Clockwork Orange
Death Race 2000
Death Race
Minority Report

Books
George Orwell - 1984
Ayn Rand - Anthem
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
John Wyndham - The Chrysalids
Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
Chuck Palahniuk - Lullaby
Karin Boye - Kallocain
Yevgeny Zamyatin - We
Ayn Rand - We the Living
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DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantW0m6at
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Registered: April 17, 2007
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DVD Profiler Desktop and Mobile RegistrantMarEll
Registered: June 9, 2007
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Matrix... 
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantCalebAndCo
Ralphie shot first.
Registered: October 6, 2008
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Also from a book by George Orwell, on film in '54 and '99:

Animal Farm
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantStar Contributordee1959jay
Registered: March 19, 2007
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Lord of the Flies?
DVD Profiler Unlimited RegistrantRhoq
Registered: May 8, 2007
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What about Children Of Men?
Peace--->Rhoq
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