How the Bold and Bloody True Story Behind The Uprising Reverberates Through History The windswept fens of eastern England, where Paul Greengrass' film "The Uprising" is set, are a far cry from the bustling streets of London.
Yet, it's in this desolate landscape that the seeds of revolution were sown. The Peasants' Revolt of 1381, as depicted in Greengrass' epic, was a catastrophic event that shook the foundations of medieval England.
Historian Dan Jones notes that the government immediately passed laws to suppress wages after the plague decimated the population.