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Apocalypse Now
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Scores
- IMDb8.4/10as of 2026-02-22
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer91%as of 2024-09-23
- Rotten Tomatoes average9.1/10as of 2024-09-23
- Metacritic94/100as of 2025-06-16
What it is
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 by Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, with the setting changed from the late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War.
At a glance
- Genres
- War / Action / Drama / Thriller / Adventure / Horror
- Original language
- English
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