Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic nearly killed its director during a catastrophic production in the Philippine jungle. The result is cinema's most hallucinatory and philosophically ambitious war film, with Marlon Brando's Colonel Kurtz lurking at the end of the river like a modern Heart of Darkness.

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