Kes

Directed by Ken Loach

With David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland and Brian Glover

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.