Apocalypse Now

1979 · 2h 27m · 8.3

Drama, War

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Francis Ford Coppola

Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Bottoms, Robert Duvall, G.D. Spradlin, Harrison Ford, Jerry Ziesmer

guerrilla warfare, vietnam war, journalist, mission, vietnam, vietcong, central intelligence agency (cia), cambodia, army, drug abuse, based on novel or book, secret mission, insanity, surrealism, tribe, green beret, jungle, descent into madness, brutality, riverboat