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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) is the documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now
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Using behind the scenes footage, and narrated by Eleanor Coppola, it chronicles how production problems including bad weather, actors' health and other issues delayed the film, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola.

Originally aired on television in the United States, Hearts of Darkness won several awards: The National Board of Review, USA award for "Best Documentary", 1991, an American Cinema Editors award for "Best Edited Documentary", 1992, two Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards for "Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming - Directing" and "Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming - Picture Editing", 1992, and the International Documentary Association award, 1992.

Trivia

Sample from Coppola interview shown in the beginning quoting "there were too many of us, we had access to too much equipment and little by little we went insane" is featured in UNKLE's song "Guns Blazing (Drums of Death, Pt. 1)".

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