The Pitch: A dramatic retelling of the Peterloo Massacre, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo tracks the years, people, and socioeconomic conditions that lead to the tragic events of August 16, 1819 in Manchester.

Andy Burnham’s scene-setting speech on Monday was delivered at the People’s History Museum in Manchester, formerly known as the Museum of Labour History. It is close to the site of the violent ...

Occasionally I like to consider the possibilities if Spike Lee and Mike Leigh wrote and directed each other's films, through no other reason than their different approaches to filmmaking and similar ...

Cathal McGuinness is a recent college graduate from Dublin, Ireland. He has been writing short stories and articles from the age of 15. He was awarded the George Dempsey prize for English Prose ...

Cinematographer Dick Pope has collaborated with iconic director Mike Leigh for over two decades and set out to apply their unique approach to filming to the story of the 1819 British massacre of ...

A 2018 historical drama starring Maxine Peake and Rory Kinnear has found a new streaming home in the UK. Written and directed by Mike Leigh, Peterloo looks back on the Peterloo Massacre in 1819, when ...

LONDON — Mike Leigh‘s next project will look at Peterloo — the 1819 massacre by British government forces at a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St. Peter’s Field in Manchester, England, when 700 people ...

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Included with your Prime membership. Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of ...