Peterloo

After thousands of pro-Democratic supporters (Pearce Quigley, Maxine Peake, David Moorst, Neil Bell, Philip Jackson, Nico Mirallegro, et al.) anxious for reform and gather peacefully on Aug. 16, 1819, in Manchester, England, on St. Peter's Fields to demand reform and to hear orator Henry Hunt (Rory Kinnear) in Mike Leigh's engaging, factually based, drawn-out, bleak,154-minute, 2018 film highlighted by striking cinematography, the saber-wielding, mounted British militia kill or injure many during the Peterloo massacre as the magistrates (Jeff Rawle, Victor McGuire, Philip Whitchurch, Vincent Franklin, Martin Savage, et al.) look on.
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