Peterloo (film) Entertainment One and in the United States on 5 April 2019, by Amazon Studios. The film "Peterloo" will mark the 200th anniversary of the notorious Peterloo Massacre. On 16 August 1819, a crowd of some 60,000 people from Manchester and surrounding towns gathered in St Peter’s Fields to demand Parliamentary reform and an extension of voting rights. The meeting had been peaceful but in the attempt to arrest a leader of the meeting, the armed government militias panicked and charged upon the crowd. The toll of casualties has always been disputed, but as many as 15 people were killed and
Peterloo (film) scene at the beginning of the film, when a lonely figure is seen walking along the marshes. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 64%, based on 53 reviews with an average rating of 6.2/10. The website's critical consensus reads, ""Peterloo" proves writer-director Mike Leigh's populist anger remains undimmed - but that righteous fury occasionally overpowers the narrative." Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". https://www.mandy.com/news/vanity-fair-tv-series-peterloo-film-paul-biddiss# Peterloo (film) Peterloo is a 2018 British historical drama, directed and written by Mike Leigh,