Celebrating Play for Today, the acclaimed series of controversial single dramas broadcast on BBC One between 1970 and 1984
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
The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village of Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed Houses are cheap and available, thus making it an ideal location for Syrian refugees
A working class English boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet kestrel
A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices, she has a child with an abusive thief at a young age who quickly ends up in prison One day, her son goes missing and she briefly comes to grips with what is most important to her
Sparks fly in Glasgows south side when a young Asian man enters into a relationship with a Caucasian woman
A documentary on how the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society
It is shattered over a daughters forced abortion As the daughter rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian norms, typical of the time, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated
David is an unemployed communist that comes to Spain in 1937 during the civil war to enroll the republicans and defend the democracy against the fascists He makes friends between the soldiers
Against the backdrop of the Irish War of Independence, two brothers fight a guerrilla war against British forces
After surviving a heart attack, a 59 year old carpenter must fight bureaucratic forces to receive Employment and Support Allowance
Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in the one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods
A simple tale of a year in the life of a Gamekeeper From the troubles involved in rearing the pheasants and dealing with predators poachers and foxes The gamekeeper shows us all the good things about living so close to nature Th
Hoping that self employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern day form of labour exploitatio
Documentary on the life and times of Ken Loach His politics in British TV and Cinema and the chaos he has caused the establishment for 50 years
When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with Black Jack adventure and mishap are never far away Based on Leon Garfields popular novel, Ken Loachs Black Jack is a dark and complex adventure film set in the 18th Century
This Ken Loach docu drama relates the story of a British womans fight with Social Services over the care of her children Maggie has a history of bouncing from one abusive relationship to another She has four children, of four diff
1987, love in time of war A bus driver George Lennox meets Carla, a Nicaraguan exile living a precarious, profoundly sad life in Glasgow Her back is scarred, her boyfriend missing, her family dispersed shes suicidal George takes
The story of a private security contractor in Iraq who rejected the official explanation of his friends death and sets out to discover the truth
During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re open the dance hall that led to his depor
Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of their hopeless lives
When an American human rights lawyer is assassinated in Belfast, it remains for the mans girlfriend, as well as a tough, no nonsense, police detective to find the truth
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 determi
The story of Stevie, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, an unemployed pop singer, serves to show the living conditions of the British poor class
Eric, a football fanatic postman whose life is descending in to crisis, receives some life coaching from Eric Cantona, the famously philosophical footballer
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