Kes

Ken Loach's drama Kes was ranked by the British Film Institute among the ten greatest British films of the twentieth century. It is a portrait of the working class in northern England: fifteen-year-old Billy (David Bradley), son of a Yorkshire miner, finds his only escape from a dead-end life in friendship with a wild kestrel.

The film brought social and political themes to cinema screens, which Loach began to develop during his work for the BBC. To British cinema of the sixties, with its poetics of "angry young men", it added a new stamp of authenticity - shot in real locations and with non-professional actors.

Loach's coming-of-age drama remains the most beloved and most influential film of the now legendary director.