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Peterloo
12:50 am - 03:25 am Friday, November 20
Peterloo
Thousands of demonstrators gather in Manchester in 1819 to protest for greater workers' rights and parliamentary representation. The peaceful protest is met with violent retribution when mounted soldiers are sent in to break up the crowd, leading to one of the most infamous acts of Government suppression in British history. Mike Leigh's fact-based period drama, starring Maxine Peake and Rory Kinnear
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- Maxine Peake — Actor as Nellie
- Rory Kinnear — Actor as Henry Hunt
- Pearce Quigley — Actor as Joshua
- Neil Bell — Actor as Samuel Bamford
- Philip Jackson — Actor as John Knight
- Vincent Franklin — Actor as Rev Ethelston
- Karl Johnson — Actor as Lord Sidmouth
- Tim McInnerny — Actor as Prince Regent
- Mike Leigh — Director
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