APOCALYPSE NOW 1sh '79 Francis Ford Coppola, classic Bob Peak art of Marlon Brando & Sheen

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war filmset during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officerCaptain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen), ofMACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special ForcesColonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando).

Coppola's and John Milius's script is based onJoseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, and also draws from Michael Herr's Dispatches, thefilm version of Conrad's Lord Jim (which shares the same character of Marlow with Heart of Darkness), and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972).

Honored with the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, the film was also deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation by theNational Film Registry in 2001.

Condition : very good to Excellent !