... Or How Not to Make a Movie... Apocalypse Now may be one of the most striking films ever made, but watching this fascinating documentary you realise it could so easily have been never made at all. Production costs ballooned from 13 to 30 million dollars, the shooting schedule went from a planned 16 weeks to 34 weeks, director Francis Ford Coppola aged visibly, Martin Sheen had a heart attack during shooting, production helicopters were seconded to fight communist rebels and a woefully under-rehearsed Marlon Brando was, by all accounts, a right royal pain in the butt. Interviews with all the major stars (except Brando) and those connected with the film's production, plus glimpses of scenes being shot create a picture of chaos and disorder from which, amazingly, came a film that some regard as a work of art. Uncut adult content.

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