On a warm day in August of 1819, 60,000 English people descended on St. Peter’s Fields, a town square in the northern city of Manchester, to demand a voice in parliament. At the time, only two percent ...

The Peterloo Massacre is a defining moment in British history and one which shaped irrevocably the future of the working class, print journalism, and government. But Mike Leigh's Peterloo movie falls ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pic follows the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester. Rory Kinnear, ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: You’ve likely heard of the Battle of Waterloo, and perhaps you’ve even seen the 1970 film, Waterloo, which starred Rod Steiger as the infamous French emperor, Napoleon ...

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The first thing you do after scheduling an interview with Mike Leigh is research. The second: panic. The 76-year-old British filmmaker, famed for his largely improvised kitchen-sink dramas such as ...

Few filmmakers have the freedom enjoyed by Mike Leigh. Whether he will continue to command big budgets is another question. After years of talking to Mike Leigh, whether at the Carlton Beach at Cannes ...

Commemorations are taking place across England this week to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre, one of the most controversial events in British political history. Peterloo: a solid ...

Historical and contemporary, epic and intimate, political and personal, it is both unlike anything writer-director Mike Leigh has done before and the grand culmination of his career. Edging into David ...

Mike Leigh commemorates an infamous 19th century massacre in the Amazon-backed historical epic 'Peterloo,' the most ambitious and expensive film of his career. By Stephen Dalton Veteran British ...

UPDATE, Oct. 2: Amazon Studios is now moving Mike Leigh’s Peterloo out of the fall frame after the British historical epic played the fall film festival triad of Venice, Telluride and TIFF. The new ...