Apocalypse Now

IMDb

8.4/10

Rated

R

Apocalypse Now is Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 war epic, loosely inspired by Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Captain Benjamin Willard, played by Martin Sheen, is sent on a secret mission up the river into Cambodia to end the command of Colonel Walter Kurtz, played by Marlon Brando, who has set himself up as a god among local tribesmen. Along the way the patrol boat crew meets the surf-mad Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall, and the growing madness of the war.

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