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.
43 movies · 12 shows
The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
2025·0.0
Censoring Palestine
2024·0.0
Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots
2024·0.0
The Bad Patriots
2024·0.0
Uomini in Marcia
2024·0.0
Cannes Uncut
2023·5.3
Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte
2023·8.0
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023·0.0
I Get Knocked Down
2023·7.5
C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando
2022·6.2
Thatcher's Not Dead
2022·7.6
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022·7.8
A Bolsa ou a Vida
2021·0.0
Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake"
2021·8.0
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020·0.0
The Great NHS Heist
2019·10.0
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
2019·7.0
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018·5.0
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018·6.5
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018·0.0
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017·5.2
How to Make a Ken Loach Film
2016·0.0
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016·5.8
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016·6.6
About Cinema
2015·8.2
Il était une fois... « Rosetta »
2015·0.0
We Are Many
2014·6.7
Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent
2012·6.0
A Special Day
2012·6.0
Catastroika
2012·6.8
Making Kes
2010·0.0
Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra
2009·7.5
What Do You Know About Me
2009·7.0
Vittorio D.
2009·6.3
Great Directors
2009·6.1
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008·5.0
Carry On Ken
2006·0.0
Ken and Rosa
2001·7.0
Citizen Ken Loach
1997·0.0
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990·0.0
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
1986·0.0
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985·0.0
Right to Work March
1972·0.0