Apocalypse Now (1979)

1979 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

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Year

1979

Released

May 10, 1979

Runtime

147 min

Genres

Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Thriller, Horror, War, History

Countries

United States

Original language

English

Director

Francis Ford Coppola

Writer

Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr, John Milius

Music

Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola

Awards

4 won · 8 nominations

Plot

Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, written by Coppola and John Milius, with narration written by Michael Herr, is inspired by Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, with the setting changed from the late 19th-century Congo to the…

Summary source: Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cast

• Marlon Brando as Colonel Walter Kurtz
• Harrison Ford as Colonel G. Lucas
• Francis Ford Coppola as a TV news director
• Robert Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Kilgore
• Charlie Sheen as extra
• Dennis Hopper as American photojournalist
• Laurence Fishburne as Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Tyrone "Mr. Clean" Miller
• Martin Sheen as U.S. Army Captain Benjamin Willard
• R. Lee Ermey as a helicopter pilot
• Scott Glenn as Captain Richard M. Colby
• Vittorio Storaro as cameraman
• Frederic Forrest as Engineman 3rd Class Jay "Chef" Hicks

Similar titles

• The Godfather 1972
• The Godfather Part II 1974
• The Godfather Part III 1990
• Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992
• Patton 1970
• Full Metal Jacket 1987
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 1989
• Platoon 1986

Sources and licences

• Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
• Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Poster: Wikimedia Commons

Updated November 13, 2026