Ken Loach’s The Old Oak, his final film, explores the migrant crisis–Syria refugees–in a struggling mining town.

The star of the once-reviled, now beloved camp classic asked her agent at the time if it might win her an Oscar.

As horrified as I was when General Westmoreland said, ‘The Oriental doesn’t put the same value on life,’ instead of arguing with him, I just wanted to draw him out… I wanted the subjects to be the focus, not me as filmmaker–Peter Davis