Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) - Spoilers! Deep Dive Part 3 #545

One last trip up the river.

In the late 1970s, as renegade filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola struggles to complete an epic allegory of the Vietnam War, "Apocalypse Now," his wife, Eleanor, films his daily travails with a camera of her own. The documentary based on her footage details the difficulties of the large production -- from weather-related delays in the Philippines to star Martin Sheen's heart attack while filming -- and it provides unprecedented behind-the-scenes clips of one of Hollywood's most-acclaimed films.

Release date: November 27, 1991 (USA)

Directors: Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper

Awards: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming - Directing · See more

Running time: 1h 37m

Producers: George Zaloom, Les Mayfield

Distributed by: Triton Pictures

Comedy

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