Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Nov 27, 1991 | IMDB 7.9
96 min Watch NowDocumentary
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.
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