Apocalypse Now | 1979 | USA| Francis Ford Coppola

Probably one of the most controversial yet widely acclaimed pictures regarding the Vietnam War, Coppola’s Apocalypse Now is actually a soft retelling of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness novella. Captain Willard is tasked with assassinating Colonel Kurtz, who seems to have fallen victim to the psychological conditions of the conflict, accused of war crimes after supposedly losing his own sanity. Well documented are the film’s brutal shoot, including real animal slaughter, destructive weather, an ill-prepared Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen nearly succumbing to a heart attack and the director himself threatening suicide. The film was snagged by UK police forces during the media panic due to the titular similarity to Cannibal Apocalypse, leading to a particularly humiliating return of the tapes.