Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam War epic, adapted from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, ran $30 million over its original budget during a notoriously troubled production documented in the film Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. It won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and two Academy Awards, and was restored as the 202-minute Apocalypse Now Final Cut in 2019. Ranked the 28th greatest American film by the AFI and widely considered the definitive artistic statement on American involvement in Vietnam.

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