A 1979 film by Francis Ford Coppola loosely adapting Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' into the Vietnam War, following a special-ops officer sent to kill a rogue colonel who has built a cult in the Cambodian jungle.
One of the defining American art films, 'Apocalypse Now' demonstrated that the Hollywood epic could accommodate philosophical poetry (Eliot's 'The Hollow Men') and profound ambiguity about the moral corruption inherent in military institutions.
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