Francis Ford Coppola's brutal Vietnam classic Apocalypse Now was today named the greatest ... A Sight & Sound poll to find the best film of all time in August this year was dominated by films ...

In pictures: the best scenes from Apocalypse Now While the film's parallels with ... and wound up showing two different versions around the world to gauge people's reactions.

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 ...