For much of its two-and-a-half-hour running time, Mike Leigh’s period epic “Peterloo” consists mostly of people talking — about what they need in order to be seen, to be heard, and frankly just to ...

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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 ...

St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester: the year is 1819, and a crowd of around 60,000 peaceful pro-democracy and antipoverty protesters have gathered to hear radical speaker Henry Hunt call for ...