Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse

The ultimate documentary behind one of the most enduring classics of the big screen, capturing the madness and brilliance behind one of the best films ever made and the era it encapsulates.

Find a screening of Apocalypse Now: The Final Cut

  • Directors

    Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper

  • With

    Dennis Hopper, Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Laurence Fishburne

  • USA 1991. 96min

  • Digital 4K

  • Certificate

    15

In the late 1970s, celebrated director Francis Ford Coppola and his cast, crew and family ventured into the dense jungles of the Philippines to begin work on what would eventually become his masterpiece, Apocalypse Now. But the journey from page to screen soon spiralled into a hellish, life-threatening nightmare that echoed the film's narrative. Plagued with adversity, one of the most influential films ever made had one of the most notorious shoots in cinema history that few survived unscathed.