Kes [Criterion Collection Blu-ray]

Billy Casper (David Bradley), a neglected boy in a Yorkshire mining town, faces bullying at school and at home and seems headed for a life down the pit. When he finds and trains a young kestrel, he discovers a sense of purpose and freedom he has never known. Ken Loach's tender, unsentimental portrait of working-class life is one of the great British films.

Details: 1969, UK. Directed by Ken Loach. Based on the novel A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines. With David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie, Colin Welland, Brian Glover. Blu-ray. The Criterion Collection.