Kes (1969)

Cast

Brian Glover
as Mr. Sugden

Get more information about Kes (1969) on IMDb

Genres & Description

Drama Family

7.9 / 10

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper (David Bradley), 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 Mr. Farthing (Colin Welland) and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence, until tragedy strikes.

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Comments on this trailer
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Andrew Grimshaw

read the book by barry hines a kestrel for a knave superb - @Saturday, December 1, 2018 9:36 PM

Harry Dootson

Anyone else see the shower scene? - @Friday, November 16, 2018 2:07 AM

Muzik Kita

Yasmin Ahmad fav movie - @Wednesday, November 14, 2018 7:29 AM

Ron Ibbotson

Complete film free on OLOLO - @Tuesday, October 16, 2018 8:46 PM

Gabriela Graneros

👏👏👏... Please what a film... Exelent!!!! Magnifique ❤❤❤ - @Friday, September 28, 2018 7:54 AM

Mohamed Abdelkader

I love this film so much! - @Monday, September 24, 2018 5:38 PM

Oguzhan aydın

Timeles - @Friday, September 21, 2018 3:22 PM

wasabimanic

When I went to see this at cinema, 7 yrs old. I was shocked when they showed the shower scene. My mam was Irish catholic and even though the naughty parts were blanked out it was excruciatingly embarressing. - @Thursday, August 23, 2018 10:31 AM

Felipe Nascimento

Esse filme é ótimo para estudar Karl Marx para o #ENEM2018 - @Monday, July 30, 2018 11:48 PM

admin sucks

Daniel day Lewis mention this was his fave movie. - @Thursday, June 28, 2018 6:17 AM

Nat x

I’m from this town (Barnsley) and my dad was friends with all these actors. - @Wednesday, May 2, 2018 8:48 PM

Alon Kes

Lol that’s my last name - @Thursday, April 12, 2018 10:47 AM

Diane Marsala

Very cool - @Thursday, March 15, 2018 10:00 AM

LT THOMAS

Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone - @Sunday, March 11, 2018 3:23 AM

Shashwat Karn

The film has a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. - @Sunday, February 18, 2018 12:49 PM

M R

Head like a fucking orange - @Friday, January 19, 2018 4:23 AM

Bekir Tekin

O KES - @Sunday, January 7, 2018 2:47 PM

TheOriginal2208

Kes amk - @Sunday, January 7, 2018 1:06 PM

Jay Bee

We had to reenact a scene for this in my drama class and I played Judd and pretended to break a birdies neck and rip it’s head off - @Tuesday, October 17, 2017 4:55 PM

Jan Smith

Love this film. Watched it many times, don't make films like this anymore. Need to introduce it to my grandchildren - @Saturday, July 22, 2017 9:06 PM

Kidoku

So this is like Naruto - @Monday, May 29, 2017 1:19 PM

Ampex196

A truly lovely film. I screened a nice 35mm print back in 2005 to an appreciative audience of around 150 people. OK, Ken Loach films are never 'light entertainment' but are always very special and a 'must see'. Here is a man who has always held proper social values and is now (eventually) being more widely recognised. Everyone - Please take note! - @Friday, February 17, 2017 12:28 AM

Ethan Hall

is that Richard Burton narrating - @Wednesday, February 15, 2017 1:33 PM

Tintin Moomin

Billy Casper has been bullied!!!! - @Wednesday, February 1, 2017 7:34 PM

Shieldzy

who is here because of Karl Pilkington lmao - @Sunday, January 29, 2017 3:45 AM

HRHooChicken

Holy crap is this why Craig David has Kes? - @Monday, January 16, 2017 11:07 PM

WOLVESFC

some films with children as the main character are unwatchable if they are bad actors, but he was great. - @Monday, December 12, 2016 10:35 PM

Gazevedo Filmes

Quem veio pelo pipocando? - @Wednesday, December 7, 2016 12:02 AM

davebeastly

Showed the trailer to my partner who grew up in the USSR, she said it reminds her of the old Soviet-era films about poverty and growing up on communal work farms but 100% less funny. Ken Loach, Ladies and Gentlemen... More depressing than communism. - @Wednesday, October 26, 2016 11:20 AM

Hack Insomniac

I want to die after watching this video - @Thursday, October 6, 2016 8:50 AM

Chilakapati Naveen

Lovely - @Sunday, September 25, 2016 5:03 PM

Al Navarro

MOZ brought me here... - @Wednesday, June 22, 2016 10:27 PM

Pearl Marden

"If you're not like the others, if you simply don't belong, you have to manage alone" - @Friday, June 17, 2016 2:41 PM

Rotating Mixture

Whatever happened to Freddie Fletcher? - @Wednesday, June 15, 2016 10:15 PM

mike kelsall

what a classic film brings back so many memories - @Saturday, April 16, 2016 9:02 AM

Mark Facciolo

I saw this film when I was around 12 or 13. Depressed the hell out of me. - @Friday, April 8, 2016 12:36 PM

alistair young

Its a shame that ken loach hates his country so much its a great film but loach has gone on to become a Jeremy corbyn monster that would give his country away to the highest bidder in an instant and hates his own people - @Saturday, April 2, 2016 7:42 AM

Shades401

R.I.P Barry Hines creator of A Kestrel For A Knave. - @Sunday, March 20, 2016 12:46 PM

joebstarsurfer

All Hipsters now lad not tut same. - @Tuesday, February 9, 2016 8:34 AM

Paul Stirling

R I P Colin Welland - @Tuesday, November 3, 2015 5:55 PM

Jack Kash

Karl Pilkington got me here - @Wednesday, September 30, 2015 2:44 AM

HBMHD

No matter in what era or place you were born, you'll understand this kid's pain if you felt different growing up. - @Saturday, September 5, 2015 6:28 PM

Billy

This film breaks my heart because that kid is me, brought up on a council estate in the sixties, it was tough and hard, you had to toughen up and stand your ground to get by, now I have a very big house, a posh wife and kids who go to private school, they know nothing of my childhood, not long ago we all sat and watched this film, I had to hide behind a news paper so I could sob my heart out, listening to billy being picked on and his northern accent just broke my heart in two. - @Monday, August 3, 2015 6:54 AM

Tim F.

Its not about fuck education Its about the hell with "school" It's simply institutionalizing And the ones who know this put their child in better ones Right? - @Sunday, July 19, 2015 6:38 PM

Smile892011

Substantial flick. Substantial trailer - save for the last few seconds. What is up with that garbage can? - @Monday, April 13, 2015 10:07 AM

TheDr

'Better than that cripple you come home wi' 'What cripple? Reg? Hes not a cripple.' 'He will be if he comes in here tonite' Haha quality - @Saturday, March 14, 2015 3:19 PM

khatya

amazing film. - @Saturday, March 7, 2015 4:26 PM

depressed waffle fries

I don't think its funny.Its sick for those teachers to tell a student he's sick. - @Friday, February 27, 2015 1:15 PM

Tascha Folsoi

This is one of the greatest movies ever! So beautiful. Interviews on the Blue Ray extras are really interesting too! - @Monday, January 26, 2015 3:53 PM

sambwoy3

Schools are actually about indoctrination so that kids accept living in servitude. They don't relate to a child's emotional issues because the system is not designed that way. I've researched this. - @Tuesday, September 16, 2014 1:25 PM