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A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
“The magic and madness of making Apocalypse Now”
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Francis Ford Coppola
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Eleanor Coppola
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John Milius
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George Lucas
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Sam Bottoms
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Albert Hall
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Rating
7.9/ 10
Release Date
1991-11-27
Runtime
1h 36m
Genres
Documentary
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CRCulver
6/10
•9/5/2018Francis Ford Coppola's film <i>Apocalypse Now</i> was one of the most infamously troubled productions in the history of Hollywood, so resonating in collective memory that it can still be parodied in new-millennium like <i>Tropic Thunder</i>. A typhoo...
Wuchak
9/10
•8/1/2019***Outstanding documentary on the making of the hallowed "Apocalypse Now"***
Released in 1991, "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse" chronicles the making of 1979's "Apocalypse Now," combining footage shot by Eleanor Coppola during the sh...