You’re not alone if you don’t know much—or anything, for that matter—about the Peterloo Massacre of August 16th, 1819, when a confrontation between protestors in Manchester, England and the British cavalry turned violent. Peasants and tradespeople descended on a Manchester square to air their grievances, only to be met with armed resistance that resulted in well over a dozen deaths and hundreds of ... more >
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Mike Leigh tells us the story of “Peterloo”
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Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake and Neil Bell
Directed by Mike Leigh