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.

• American Zoetrope
• Zaloom Mayfield Productions
• Francis Ford Coppola
• Eleanor Coppola
• John Milius
• George Lucas
• Sam Bottoms
• Albert Hall
• Frederic Forrest
• Laurence Fishburne