Most people who have watched the 1979 American epic Vietnam war film Apocalypse Now, think of Marlon Brando’s character Colonel Kurtz as fictional, but will be surprised to hear that he is an ...

In the innermost layer of the heart of darkness in Apocalypse Now resides Colonel Kurtz. When Willard finally meets him, Kurtz sees himself as a man who believes he has achieved clarity of purpose.

Francis Ford Coppola set out to make a movie about the chaos of the Vietnam War when the wound of the conflict was still fresh. He did not set out for a production that ended up being nearly as ...

He explained, "My dad took me to see Apocalypse Now when I was 11 and that’s my ... upriver journey to find and terminate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a once-promising officer who his ...

Emilio Estevez has shared some behind-the-scenes stories from his famous father’s time filming “Apocalypse Now” 49 years ago. The “Breakfast Club” star, 62, opened up about his dad Marti ...

An artist’s parents were extras in Apocalypse Now. But in trying to recenter their experience in her own work, she wondered: whose story was it to tell? On the first day of filming, a small crew ...

Laurence Fishburne is recalling an incident while filming 1979’s Apocalypse Now that he said left director Francis Ford Coppola “disappointed.” In Apple TV+’s new documentary Number One on ...