However, one film is widely regarded as Coppola's magnum opus: Apocalypse Now. The anti-war film was loosely inspired by Joseph Conrad 's 1899 novella, Heart of Darkness. For the uninitiated, the ...

In 1979, Francis Ford Coppola released one of the most influential films ever made—but there was a moment when it seemed like the movie would never see the light of day at all. In the years since its ...

Part of that is due to Francis Ford Coppola's unflinching look at the carnage wrought during the Vietnam War, and the story ...