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Which film is known for its depiction of the Vietnam War and its impact on American society?
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Apocalypse Now
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The film is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, and tells the story of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a U.S. Army officer sent on a mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a renegade Green Beret commander who has set himself up as a god in Cambodia during the Vietnam War.