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Apocalypse Now(1979)
Released
1979 · FILM

Apocalypse Now

A disillusioned soldier is tasked with assassinating a rogue war hero who has broken away from the U.S. military and built a mythic jungle empire—forcing him to confront the line between madness and conviction in the heart of the Vietnam War.

“This is the end...”

Directed by
Francis Ford Coppola, Tony Brandt
Written by
John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola
Rated
MPA · R
Format
Shot on 16mm film
Runtime
147 min
DramaMysteryWar

Synopsis

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is assigned to carry out the assassination of a renegade Special Forces Colonel who regards himself as a god.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 388+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Lisa FruchtmanShot by Vittorio StoraroScored by Carmine CoppolaDesigned by Dean TavoularisSound by Richard P CirincioneStunts by Terry Leonard

Box Office

1979 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.8× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$150.0M

Budget$31.5M
Worldwide gross$150.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $78.8M — 53% of worldwide · International: $71.2M (47%)

Opening weekend: $119K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 3 theaters

Re-release box office

20251 theaters
$47K($48K today)
202222 theaters
$120K($135K today)
19876 theaters
$42K($121K today)
Total re-release
$208K

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Other versions & cuts

  • Apocalypse Now Reduxde
  • Apocalypse Now: The Final Cutde
  • Apocalypse Now - Final Cuten
  • Apocalypse Now: The Final Cuten

These are distinct edits of the film. Their own runtime and release year aren’t on file yet — we only have the alternate title so far.

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