Directing
Ken Loach
Biography
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), and labour rights (Riff-Raff, 1991, and The Navigators, 2001). 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.
Movies with Ken Loach
Cannes Uncut
2023
We Are Many
2014
A Special Day
2012
Great Directors
2009
Censoring Palestine
2024
Carry On Ken
2006
The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
2025
Thatcher's Not Dead
2022
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016
Vittorio D.
2009
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
Ken and Rosa
2001
Il était une fois... « Rosetta »
2015
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008
About Cinema
2015
Right to Work March
1972
Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent
2012
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
1986
Uomini in Marcia
2024
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018
Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake"
2021
I Get Knocked Down
2023
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
What Do You Know About Me
2009
Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots
2024
The Bad Patriots
2024
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
2019
Citizen Ken Loach
1997
The Great NHS Heist
2019
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018
C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando
2022
A Bolsa ou a Vida
2021
Catastroika
2012
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023
Making Kes
2010
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020
How to Make a Ken Loach Film
2016
Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra
2009
Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte
2023
TV Shows with Ken Loach
Question Time
1979
Square
2012
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
2023
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
2025
Television
1985
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016
British Film Forever
2007
Reel Britannia
2022
Carry On Ken
2006
Victoria Wood: The Secret List
2020