Drama · War
American
1979 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 147 min
During the Vietnam War, an army captain is ordered to travel upriver into Cambodia and find a decorated officer who has gone beyond military control. The journey becomes less a mission than a slow passage into a stranger and more unsettling country. Hallucinatory, ambitious and often beautiful.
Why it matters in cinema history
A culminating work of New Hollywood and the film that fixed the Vietnam War in the popular imagination as a surreal, morally disorienting experience rather than a conventional combat story.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a journey whose landscape changes with the narrator's state of mind, not as a conventional war story.
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