Ken Loach Collection Vol.1 (DVD)

Available together in a box set for the first time, experience the drama and intensity from some truly ground-breaking and memorable British Cinema. This box set comes complete with 2 hours of extras across the 8 discs, a 16 page companion booklet featuring introductions from Ken Loach himself and Barry Hines, quotes and production notes, and a bonus DVD containing a documentary profiling Loach plus the theatrical for his new cinematic masterpiece 'It's A Free World'. As if all this wasn't enough, this Volume contains Loach's - first time to DVD - 1980 film 'The Gamekeeper'. Kes (1969): Kes is the story of Barnsley boy Billy Casper (David Bradley), academic failure and eternal victim, who finds release and a sense of personal identity through training the eponymous kestrel. Committed to falconry in a way he'll never be to anything at school, Billy gets abuse from his snotty peers and malicious PE teacher Mr. Sugden (Brian Glover). Only buoyant Mr. Farthing (Colin Welland) shows any interest in Billy's extracurricular activities as, he discovers this apparently useless layabout is actually highly intelligent and dedicated. The Gamekeeper (1980): Riff Raff (1990): Raining Stones (1993): Poor Cow (1967): Young mother Joy (Carol White) is forced to fend for herself when her brutal and uncaring husband, Tom (John Bindon), is put in jail. Joy finds brief happiness with Tom's criminal associate Dave (Terence Stamp), who proves kind and gentle when she moves in with him, but this relationship ends when he is also jailed, and Joy is left to raise her young son alone in squalid circumstances. Ladybird Ladybird (1994): The Navigators (2001): The Navigators stars Dean Andrews, Tom Craig, Joe Duttine, Steve Huison, Venn Tracey and Sean Glenn as a close-knit team of track side workers forced to cope with the effects of British Rail being broken into malfunctioning pieces. An accumulation of small incidents and comic episodes depict the devastating consequences for both the workers and their families of "flexible working" and dramatic cost-cutting. Bread And Roses (2000): From acclaimed director Ken Loach comes the gripping story of a group of immigrant workers who take a stand against the million dollar corporations who employ them. Newly arrived illegal immigrant Maya (Pilar Padilla) has just joined her sister on the job as a janitor in a downtown LA office building. Appalled at the work conditions and unfair labor practices, she teams up with Sam (Adrien Brody) a labor organizer, to fight their ruthless employer.

16 page booklet
54 minute documentary made for the Southbank Show and first screened on TV in 1993 with Ken Loach interviewed about his career to date.