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Peterloo: Directed by Mike Leigh. With Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst. The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
- (5.5K)
- Drama, History
- Mike Leigh
- 2019-04-05
In 1819 a cavalry charge on a peaceful protest at St. Peter's Field in Manchester, England, results in the Peterloo Massacre.
- (163)
- Mike Leigh
- PG-13
- Rory Kinnear
Apr 5, 2019 · In St. Peter’s Field in Manchester, England, in 1819, an assembly of protesters urging parliamentary reform and workers’ rights was set upon by the British cavalry, who killed 18 and wounded nearly 1,000.
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, in which a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter's Field in Manchester turned into one of the bloodiest, most notorious episodes in British history.
Apr 4, 2019 · The new film about the Peterloo Massacre of 1819 is both horrifying and deeply moving. Read TIME's review.
- 1 min
- Stephanie Zacharek
Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, where government-backed cavalry charged into a peaceful crowd of 60,000 that gathered in Manchester, England to demand democratic reform.
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Apr 4, 2019 · Mike Leigh’s “Peterloo,” about a notorious episode of political violence, is for most of its running time a riot of verbal eloquence.
