Filmmaker Paul Greengrass on rage, rebellion and ‘The Uprising’

This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Moseley. My guest today, Director Paul Greengrass. Makes films about the choices ordinary people make when they're trapped inside forces they cannot control. He's taken us to the streets of Derry as British soldiers opened fire on civil rights marchers in Bloody Sunday. aboard a hijack plane on september eleven and unite ninety three

And onto a cargo ship seized by Somali pirates and Captain Phillips. His new film, The Uprising It takes on a story familiar to generations of English school children. The peasants revolt of thirteen eighty one. In the film, the play cut the population in half, making workers more valuable than ever.

But the ruling class is determined to keep them in their place. When a government imposes a brutal tax to finance its wars. Tens of thousands march on London. Andrew Garfield stars is an unnamed farmer called the ploughman. He's buried his wife and children, and is deep in debt on land that no longer produces a crop.

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