Kes is a 1969 British film from director Ken Loach and producer Tony Garnett. The film is based on the novel A Kestrel for a Knave written by the Barnsley-born author Barry Hines in 1968. The film is ranked seventh in the British Film Institute's Top Ten (British) Films[1] and among the top ten in its list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.
The film Kes has been accused by falconers of encouraging viewers to illegally capture wild kestrels and to try to train them with only the film as information source.
