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.

Francis Ford Coppola
as Self

Eleanor Coppola
as Self

John Milius
as Self

George Lucas
as Self

Sam Bottoms
as Self

Albert Hall
as Self

Frederic Forrest
as Self

Laurence Fishburne
as Self

Dean Tavoularis
as Self

Fred Roos
as Self
CRCulver
Francis 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 typhoon struck the set in the Philippines, local officia...
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***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 shooting of the film with more recent interviews wit...