Bill Douglas is best known for his autobiographical trilogy about his childhood, and this 1986 movie about the Tolpuddle martyrs is his only subsequent film. This is no worthy lefty biopic: around these bare bones, Douglas builds a warm, involving and idiosyncratic film. It's full of familiar faces - Robert Stephens and Freddie Jones are the corrupt establishment, Philip Davis and Keith Allen among the rebels. But the lead is a powerful performance by the little-known Robin Soans. A story from history that deserves to be better known and it couldn't have been done with more care and determination.