Directing
Ken Loach
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936; Nuneaton) is a retired British film director, screenwriter and producer. His humanist values and socialist political views are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (Poor Cow, 1967), homelessness (Cathy Come Home, 1966), labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991; The Navigators, 2001), and revolutionary struggle (Land and Freedom, 1995; The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006). Kenneth Charles Loach was born on 17 June 1936 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the son of Vivien (née Hamlin) and John Loach. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and at the age of 19 went to serve in the Royal Air Force. He read law at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated with a third-class degree. As a member of the Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club he directed an open-air production of Bartholomew Fair for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford, in 1959 (when he also took the role of the shady horse-dealer Dan Jordan Knockem). After Oxford, he began a career in the dramatic arts. Loach's film Kes (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) and I, Daniel Blake (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only nine filmmakers to win the award twice.
Filmography
The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
Film · 2025
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
Series · 2025
Uomini in Marcia
Film · 2024
Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots
Film · 2024
Censoring Palestine
Film · 2024
The Bad Patriots
Film · 2024
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
Film · 2023
Cannes Uncut
Film · 2023
Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte
Film · 2023
I Get Knocked Down
Film · 2023
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
Series · 2023
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
Film · 2022
Thatcher's Not Dead
Film · 2022
C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando
Film · 2022
Reel Britannia
Series · 2022
Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake"
Film · 2021
A Bolsa ou a Vida
Film · 2021
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
Film · 2020
Victoria Wood: The Secret List
Series · 2020
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
Film · 2019
The Great NHS Heist
Film · 2019
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
Film · 2018
Who Killed British Cinema?
Film · 2018
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
Film · 2018
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
Film · 2017
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
Film · 2016
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
Film · 2016
How to Make a Ken Loach Film
Film · 2016
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
Series · 2016
About Cinema
Film · 2015
Il était une fois... « Rosetta »
Film · 2015
We Are Many
Film · 2014
Catastroika
Film · 2012
Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent
Film · 2012
A Special Day
Film · 2012
Square
Series · 2012
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Series · 2011
Making Kes
Film · 2010
Great Directors
Film · 2009
Vittorio D.
Film · 2009
Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra
Film · 2009
What Do You Know About Me
Film · 2009
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
Film · 2008
British Film Forever
Series · 2007
Carry On Ken
Film · 2006
Making Reel History
Film · 2006
Carry On Ken
Series · 2006
Ken and Rosa
Film · 2001
Citizen Ken Loach
Film · 1997
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
Film · 1990
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
Film · 1986
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
Film · 1985
Television
Series · 1985
Question Time
Series · 1979
The South Bank Show
Series · 1978
Right to Work March
Film · 1972
Film '72
Series · 1971