19th June 2019
Peterloo (12A)
Directed by Mike Leigh.
Starring: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell.
Running time 151 minutes
The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
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 80,000 that gathered in Manchester to demand democratic reform.