Kes was the most inspirational film for me in the late 60's and typical of what life could be like in schools in small towns like this back then. It is based in a northern town in England about the sort of small framed boy who is the stereotypical target for bullies unhappy at home and equally unhappy at school until he discovers a kestrel. He studies all he can about the kestrel (pre-internet!) and trains it. It becomes his whole world until the harshness of life in the form of his bullying older brother kills the only thing he loved, the kestrel. For me it was hard hitting not over sentimental either surprisingly despite the subject matter but whenever it is shown I make a point of watching it.