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Sharpe's Justice (1997)

Sharpe's Justice poster
Directed by
Tom Clegg
Genre
drama film, historical film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 42m
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 27 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Richard Sharpe, a British soldier, gets caught up in a violent clash between workers and the local militia in a Yorkshire town. He must navigate corruption and injustice while trying to protect ordinary people.

tensegrittyslow-burnmelancholicvisceralhistoricalgroundeddramatic

What happens

Sharpe's Justice is a British television drama, the 13th episode of a series that follows the career of Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier during the Napoleonic Wars. Unlike most of the other instalments of the series, this episode was not based on a novel by Bernard Cornwell. A key scene in the story is based on the Peterloo Massacre of 1819, reset here to Keighley in Yorkshire, in 1814. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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