Movies: Ken Loach

Shortly after Margaret Thatcher's election as prime minister, Ken Loach returned to documentary, convinced that the long gestation of feature films made them useless as instruments of topical social comment. But his trade union documentary A Question...

The documentary, filmed in England in autumn 2020, sheds light on the genesis and background of the social drama....

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This film sketches a very personal and decidedly political portrait of the Iron Lady who left the greatest mark on the UK, alongside Queen Elizabeth II. Archives and interviews are enriched by songs from this period that really help to understand the...

Ken Loach documentary, pushing for British withdrawal from Northern Ireland....

Ken Loach's censored production for the Central Office of Information....

The creators of Debtocracy, analyze the shifting of state assets to private hands. They travel round the world gathering data on privatization and search for clues on the day after Greece's massive privatization program....

Ken Loach production, shown as one segment of BBC2's arts programme 'Full House'....

In 2017, with the support of an extraordinary grassroots movement, British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn came close to becoming prime minister. The establishment trembled. Britain stood on the threshold of huge political change. But within three ...

A documentary on the making of Kes, produced by the Criterion Collection....

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Karim Dridi, originally aired 2 July 1997....

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Television documentary about British film director Ken Loach....

Ken Loach documentary on the end of the 1984 - '85 miners' strike....

Ken Loach spent two days on the Jeremy Corbyn Labour leadership campaign trail in the summer of 2016. He documented people sharing their personal stories and discussing their reasons for supporting our agenda. These stories show why Labour must trans...

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Ken Loach documentary for Channel 4's Dispatches, investigating false claims of fraud and corruption during the miners' strike of '84/'85 that reared their head against Arthur Scargill in 1990....

An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel....

Ken Loach documentary; made for Central Television in 1988, but rejected, and not shown until the following year, when it was taken up by Channel 4. It tells the story of the West Midlands-based Young Foundry theatre group members Stephen Page,Paul H...

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