Kes (Criterion Collection)

Named by the British Film Institute as one of the ten best British films of the century, KES, from Ken Loach (HIDDEN AGENDA, THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY), is cinemas quintessential portrait of working-class Northern England. Billy (an astonishingly naturalistic David Bradley) is a fifteen-year-old miners son whose close bond with a wild kestrel provides him with a spiritual escape from his dead-end life.