In 1979, Francis Ford Coppola released one of the most influential films ever made—but there was a moment when it seemed like the movie would never see the light of day at all. In the years since its ...

While Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War epic Apocalypse Now(1979) is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, in the years leading up to its release in the late '70s it was known as ...