Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

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.

Cast

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

as Self

Eleanor Coppola

Eleanor Coppola

as Self

John Milius

John Milius

as Self

George Lucas

George Lucas

as Self

Sam Bottoms

Sam Bottoms

as Self

Albert Hall

Albert Hall

as Self

Frederic Forrest

Frederic Forrest

as Self

Laurence Fishburne

Laurence Fishburne

as Self

Dean Tavoularis

Dean Tavoularis

as Self

Fred Roos

Fred Roos

as Self

Reviews

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...

Wuchak

***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...

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