A Jackdaw-style dossier
Kitchen Sink Cinema
British new-wave films, 1956–1970 — and the world they were made in
The world of this film
Barnsley, 1969
Hines's Hoyland Common; secondary moderns and the pit.
From the page
A Kestrel for a Knave
The people
director
Ken Loach
What it dramatises
Youth — national service, teenagers, borstal, schooling
Crime - policing, borstal, petty thieving
Items marked with a source link are verified against that source; items marked unverified are AI-drafted period colour awaiting a primary source. Dossier assembled from the Kitchen Sink atlas.