Colin Welland

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

Dir. Ken Loach · With David Bradley, Freddie Fletcher, Lynne Perrie

War between two Irish youth gangs consists of removing and retrieving buttons from each other's clothing.

Dir. John Roberts · With Liam Cunningham, Colm Meaney, Ger Ryan

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

Dir. Hugh Hudson · With Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Cheryl Campbell

During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.

Dir. Euzhan Palcy · With Donald Sutherland, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae