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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in the Irish Republican Army, but political events are soon set in motion that tear the brothers apart.
Ken Loach
Casts & Crew
Cillian Murphy
Pádraic Delaney
Liam Cunningham
Orla Fitzgerald
Gerard Kearney
William Ruane
Roger Allam
Laurence Barry
Sabrina Barry
Kieran Aherne
Scott Peden
Mary O'Riordan
Mary Murphy
Damien Kearney
Frank Bourke
Myles Horgan
Martin Lucey
Aidan O'Hare
Shane Casey
John Crean
Keith Dunphy
Kieran Hegarty
Shane Nott
Kevin O'Brien
Gary McCarthy
Tim O'Mahon
Graham Browne
Owen Buckley
Aidan Fitzpatrick
Vince Hannington
Denis Kelleher
Colin McClery
Finbar O'Mahon
John Quinlan
Peggy Lynch
Noel O'Donovan
Peter O'Mahoney
Barry Bourke
Frank O'Sullivan
Diarmuid Ó'Dálaigh
Corina Gough
Danny Riordan
Peg Crowley
Fiona Lawton
Clare Dineen
Sean McGinley
Tomas OhEalaithe
Nora Lynch
Diarmuid NĂ Mheachair
Denis Conway
Barry L. Looney
Connie O'Connail
Aine O'Connor
Francis O'Connor
Peadr O'Riada
Neil Brand
Tom Charnock
Alan Ready
Mark Wakeling
Antony Byrne
Anthony Mark Streeter
Bill Armstrong
Christopher Bown
Mark Bryce
Alex Dee
Jonny Holmes
Allan Huntley
Bill Hurst
Daniel Kington
Jamie Lomas
Owen McQuade
Richard Oldham
Colin Parry
Bernie Sweeney
Derek Taylor
Neil Alan Taylor
Gregor Wood
Karl Dawson
Niall McCarthy
Siobhan McSweeney
Seamus Moynihan
Also Directed by Ken Loach
Social change in Britain in the aftermath of the Second World War, including the nationalisation of industries and the formation of the welfare state. Made almost entirely in black & white, so B&W archive footage from the 1940s blend in with interviews made today.
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
This Ken Loach film tells the story of a man devoted to his family and his religion. Proud, though poor, Bob wants his little girl to have a beautiful (and costly) brand-new dress for her First Communion. His stubbornness and determination get him into trouble as he turns to more and more questionable measures, in his desperation to raise the needed money. This tragic flaw leads him to risk all that he loves and values, his beloved family, indeed even his immortal soul and salvation, in blind pursuit of that goal.
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa gets Maya a job as a janitor: a non-union janitorial service has the contract, the foul-mouthed supervisor can fire workers on a whim, and the service-workers' union has assigned organizer Sam Shapiro to bring its "justice for janitors" campaign to the building. Sam finds Maya a willing listener, she's also attracted to him. Rosa resists, she has an ailing husband to consider. The workers try for public support; management intimidates workers to divide and conquer. Rosa and Maya as well as workers and management may be set to collide.
David Carr is a British Communist who is unemployed. In 1936, when the Spanish Civil War begins, he decides to fight for the Republican side, a coalition of liberals, communists and anarchists, so he joins the POUM militia and witnesses firsthand the betrayal of the Spanish revolution by Stalin's followers and Moscow's orders.
Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to West Berlin, where the representatives of an American record company are eagerly waiting for him. They plan to exploit his defection from communism both ideologically and financially. But Klaus, as ill-at-ease in the West as he was in the East, is reluctant to be used as an expendable commodity. Leaving his contract unsigned (or signed in his manner), he leaves for Cambridge to meet his father, a concert player, who -just like him - left East Berlin thirty years ago as Klaus was a little boy. He is accompanied by a young French journalist, Emma, who knows where his father has been living since he disappeared for more than a decade. The young lady is cooperative but might hide things from him...
Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?
Ken Loach's censored production for the Central Office of Information.
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 Harper, Jimmy Dunn,Chris Dunn, Caroline White and Roy Stokes who act out a series of scenes reflecting their past, unemployment, homelessness and drug abuse that is rife in the local area.