At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

• United Artists
• American Zoetrope
• Martin Sheen
• Marlon Brando
• Albert Hall
• Frederic Forrest
• Laurence Fishburne
• Sam Bottoms
• Robert Duvall
• Dennis Hopper