Ken Loach
Directing
1936-06-17 · Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England, UK
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.
Filmography
TheatersForgotten Spaceman
2026 · Movie
Palestine 36
2025 · Movie
Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius
2025 · Series
The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues
2025 · Movie
Censoring Palestine
2024 · Movie
Loach vs Corbyn: The Bad Patriots
2024 · Movie
The Bad Patriots
2024 · Movie
Uomini in Marcia
2024 · Movie
The Old Oak
2023 · Movie
Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
2023 · Series
Cannes Uncut
2023 · Movie
Ken Loach, le vent de la révolte
2023 · Movie
Oh Jeremy Corbyn - The Big Lie
2023 · Movie
I Get Knocked Down
2023 · Movie
C'era una volta in Italia - Giacarta sta arrivando
2022 · Movie
Thatcher's Not Dead
2022 · Movie
Film: The Living Record of Our Memory
2022 · Movie
Reel Britannia
2022 · Series
A Bolsa ou a Vida
2021 · Movie
Once upon a time... "I, Daniel Blake"
2021 · Movie
Victoria Wood: The Secret List
2020 · Series
Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020 · Movie
The Great NHS Heist
2019 · Movie
Greg Davies: Looking for Kes
2019 · Movie
Sorry We Missed You
2019 · Movie
Who Killed British Cinema?
2018 · Movie
CzechMate: In Search of Jiří Menzel
2018 · Movie
The Dream Palace: A People's History of Tyneside Cinema
2018 · Movie
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017 · Movie
How to Make a Ken Loach Film
2016 · Movie
I, Daniel Blake
2016 · Movie
To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
2016 · Movie
In Conversation With Jeremy Corbyn
2016 · Movie
John Bishop: In Conversation with...
2016 · Series
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016 · Movie
About Cinema
2015 · Movie
Il était une fois... « Rosetta »
2015 · Movie
We Are Many
2014 · Movie
Jimmy's Hall
2014 · Movie
Idyll
2014 · Movie
The Spirit of '45
2013 · Movie
Jordi Dauder, la revolució pendent
2012 · Movie
The Angels' Share
2012 · Movie
A Special Day
2012 · Movie
Catastroika
2012 · Movie
Square
2012 · Series
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011 · Series
Route Irish
2011 · Movie
Making Kes
2010 · Movie
Celuloide colectivo: el cine en guerra
2009 · Movie
What Do You Know About Me
2009 · Movie
Vittorio D.
2009 · Movie
Looking for Eric
2009 · Movie
Great Directors
2009 · Movie
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008 · Movie
To Each His Own Cinema
2007 · Movie
It's a Free World...
2007 · Movie
British Film Forever
2007 · Series
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2006 · Movie
Carry On Ken
2006 · Movie
Carry On Ken
2006 · Series
McLibel
2005 · Movie
Tickets
2005 · Movie
Ae Fond Kiss...
2004 · Movie
Sweet Sixteen
2002 · Movie
September 11
2002 · Movie
Ken and Rosa
2001 · Movie
The Navigators
2001 · Movie
Bread and Roses
2000 · Movie
The Limey
1999 · Movie
My Name Is Joe
1998 · Movie
Another City: A Week in the Life of Bath's Football Club
1998 · Movie
Citizen Ken Loach
1997 · Movie
The Flickering Flame
1996 · Movie
Carla's Song
1996 · Movie
Land and Freedom
1995 · Movie
Modern Times
1995 · Series
A Contemporary Case for Common Ownership
1995 · Movie
Ladybird Ladybird
1994 · Movie
Raining Stones
1993 · Movie
Riff-Raff
1991 · Movie
The Arthur Legend
1991 · Movie
Hidden Agenda
1990 · Movie
The Making of 'Hidden Agenda'
1990 · Movie
The View from the Woodpile
1989 · Movie
Time to Go
1989 · Movie
Dispatches
1987 · Series
Fatherland
1986 · Movie
Split Screen
1986 · Series
A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
1986 · Movie
Shooting from the Heart: Chris Menges, Cameraman
1985 · Movie
Which Side Are You On?
1985 · Movie
End of the Battle... Not the End of the War
1985 · Movie
Television
1985 · Series
The Red and the Blue
1983 · Movie
Looks and Smiles
1981 · Movie
A Question of Leadership
1981 · Movie
Auditions
1980 · Movie
The Gamekeeper
1980 · Movie
Question Time
1979 · Series
Black Jack
1979 · Movie
The Price of Coal, Part 2: Back to Reality
1977 · Movie
The Price of Coal, Part 1: Meet the People
1977 · Movie
Days of Hope
1975 · Series
Right to Work March
1972 · Movie
Full House
1972 · Series
Talk About Work
1971 · Movie
Family Life
1971 · Movie
Film '72
1971 · Series
The Rank and File
1971 · Movie
The Save the Children Fund Film
1971 · Movie
Play for Today
1970 · Series
Kes
1970 · Movie
The Big Flame
1969 · Movie
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · Series
The Golden Vision
1968 · Movie
Poor Cow
1967 · Movie
In Two Minds
1967 · Movie
Cathy Come Home
1966 · Movie
The Coming Out Party
1965 · Movie
The End of Arthur's Marriage
1965 · Movie
Up the Junction
1965 · Movie
Three Clear Sundays
1965 · Movie
Wear a Very Big Hat
1965 · Movie
A Tap on the Shoulder
1965 · Movie
The Wednesday Play
1964 · Series
Diary of a Young Man
1964 · Series
Teletale
1963 · Series
Z-Cars
1962 · Series