(1969) Ken Loach's debut feature stars David Bradley as a young boy who escapes his dead-end life by raising and training a kestrel. Nudity/some strong language.

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.