Both the 1956 film of 1984 and the 1954 cartoon of Animal Farm were apparently funded by CIA front organisations as propaganda: the cartoon shows Benjamin the donkey leading the other animals to overthrow the pigs as they're playing cards with the humans, and an alternative ending of 1984 has Winston and Julia, hand in hand, gunned down as they shout "Down with Big Brother!" (something I tend to mutter during Reality TV season, but that's by-the-by).
What little remains of the BBC's 'The Caves of Steel' (starring Cushing, and adapted by Terry Nation), can be seen on youtube. But as you say, at least we have Metropolis... as well as the 1931 Spanish language Dracula (once considered lost), and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (ditto).
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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines/031800-02.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm_%281954_film%29
What little remains of the BBC's 'The Caves of Steel' (starring Cushing, and adapted by Terry Nation), can be seen on youtube. But as you say, at least we have Metropolis... as well as the 1931 Spanish language Dracula (once considered lost), and Peter Lorre as Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (ditto).