Behind the scenes footage of Apocalypse Now.
Chas Gerretsen photographs taken during the shooting of Apocalypse Now.

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic psychological war film directed and produced by
Francis Ford Coppola. It stars Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest,
Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, and Dennis Hopper. The screenplay, co-written
by Coppola and John Milius with narration written by Michael Herr, is loosely based on the 1899
novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, with the setting changed from late 19th-century
Congo to the Vietnam War. The film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia
undertaken by Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate
Colonel Kurtz (Brando), a renegade Army Special Forces officer accused of murder and who is
presumed insane.

Apocalypse Now was honored with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where it
premiered unfinished before it was finally released on August 15, 1979, by United Artists. It
performed well at the box office, grossing $40 million domestically and going on to gross over
$100 million worldwide. Initial reviews were mixed; while Vittorio Storaro's cinematography
was widely acclaimed, several critics found Coppola's handling of the story's major themes
anticlimactic and intellectually disappointing.

Apocalypse Now is today widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. It was
nominated for eight Academy Awards at the 52nd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best
Director (Coppola), and Best Supporting Actor for Duvall, and went on to win for Best
Cinematography and Best Sound. It ranked No. 14 in Sight & Sound's greatest films poll in
2012, and No. 6 in the Director's Poll of greatest films of all time. Roger Ebert also
included it in his top 10 list of greatest films ever in 2012.

In 2000, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the
Library of Congress as "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".

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