APOCALYPSE NOW
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Written by Francis Coppola and John Milius, based on the Joseph Conrad Novel Heart of Darkness
Starring Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando
​Released in 1979

By the late 1970s, the war experience had become fodder for movie studios. The very fact of a film being made about the war suggested the slant would be anti, but that was not necessarily so. Coming Home, starring Jane Fonda, Bruce Dern and Jon Voight, was certainly a film that did not seem to much care for the war in as much as Voight--whose character was crippled--was able to "give" Fonda the orgasm her pro-military husband Dern could not. But besides that and a great period piece soundtrack, the movie offered little. Not much better was The Deer Hunter, although it did deal with the psychological horrors affecting people long after the war was over. And even though Oliver Stone would later make two excellent films was the war as the focus, for the better part of a decade, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now was the ultimate Vietnam War film.