A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
- Won 2 Oscars
- 21 wins & 33 nominations total
Laurence Fishburne
- GM3 Tyrone 'Clean' Miller
- (as Larry Fishburne)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaShooting, originally scheduled for six weeks, took 16 months.
- GoofsWhen Captain Willard first meets Colonel Kilgore, they exchange salutes while they are still in a combat zone. It is usually military protocol not to salute in a combat zone. Saluting would show a possible sniper who the commanding officer is. (e.g. in Forrest Gump (1994) Lt. Dan correctly instructed Gump and Bubba not to salute him in the field.)
- Crazy creditsThere are no opening credits in the film. The title can be seen as graffiti in the Kurtz compound late in the film.
- Alternate versionsThe theatrical and Redux DVDs released by Paramount Pictures and Lions Gate Studios in the United States, as well as the earlier letterbox VHS and LaserDisc releases, were re-framed in DP Vittorio Storaro's preferred 2.00:1 "Univision" format. The Lions Gate US Blu-ray release, however, restores the film's original 2.39:1 aspect ratio (although the packaging reads 2.35:1).
- ConnectionsEdited into Apocalypse Pooh (1987)
- SoundtracksThe End
by Jim Morrison (as The Doors), Ray Manzarek (as The Doors), Robby Krieger (as The Doors), and John Densmore (as The Doors)
Performed by The Doors
Courtesy of Elektra/Asylum Records
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Take the long ride to perdition.
There are films we watch because they are good, even though they are painful for us. This is a film I saw one time. At that time I thought to myself, this is enough. It was painful to make that journey down the river, wondering what was around every corner. Then we meet the products of our own id impulses, as we are the enemy, our souls have been brought down to this. At the end of the river is the man who came before us, and we see the uselessness of the journey. It is the Heart of Darkness. There are death masters like Robert Duvall. There are those who can only hope to survive, but the war is the master. The Doors music as the napalm settles gently on the treetops and across the ground, sweeps us up gently. Meanwhile it is consuming the flesh of the Vietnamese people, as well as an occasional American soldier. The ancient Romans could not envision peace without war. We and much of the world seem to have embraced those tenets put forth some two thousand years ago. This film gets into the marrow.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official sites
- Languages
- Also known as
- Apocalipsis ahora
- Filming locations
- Baler Bay, Baler, Aurora, Philippines(beach with soldiers surfing)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $31,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $96,042,913
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $118,558
- Aug 19, 1979
- Gross worldwide
- $105,089,661
- Runtime2 hours 27 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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