Trailer for Peterloo, starring Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst and Rachel Finnegan. Film will premiere to the premium network Amazon.
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, England to demand democratic reform.