• Director(s)

    Francis Coppola

  • Production Year

    1979

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, War

  • Approx. running minutes

    154m

  • Cast

    Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, G. D. Spradlin, Harrison Ford, Jerry Ziesmer, Scott Glenn, Bo Byers, James Keane, Kerry Rossall, Ron McQueen, Tom Mason, Cynthia Wood, Colleen Camp, Linda Carpenter, Jack Thibeau, Glenn Walken, George Cantero, Damien Leake, Herb Rice, William Upton, Larry Carney, Marc Coppola, Daniel Kiewit, Father Elias, Bill Graham, Hattie James (voice), Jerry Ross, Dick White, Francis Coppola, R. Lee Ermey, Vittorio Storaro

Film

Apocalypse Now

strong bloody violence, gore, language

A US Army officer is sent on a secret mission to terminate a renegade Colonel. This intense Vietnam War film features a brooding tone, gory moments, and disturbed and troubled characters.…

A US Army officer is sent on a secret mission to terminate a renegade Colonel. This intense Vietnam War film features a brooding tone, gory moments, and disturbed and troubled characters.

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violence

language

sex

drugs

suicide and self-harm

injury detail

nudity

disturbing images

  • Director(s)

    Francis Coppola

  • Production Year

    1979

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, War

  • Approx. running minutes

    154m

  • Cast

    Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, G. D. Spradlin, Harrison Ford, Jerry Ziesmer, Scott Glenn, Bo Byers, James Keane, Kerry Rossall, Ron McQueen, Tom Mason, Cynthia Wood, Colleen Camp, Linda Carpenter, Jack Thibeau, Glenn Walken, George Cantero, Damien Leake, Herb Rice, William Upton, Larry Carney, Marc Coppola, Daniel Kiewit, Father Elias, Bill Graham, Hattie James (voice), Jerry Ross, Dick White, Francis Coppola, R. Lee Ermey, Vittorio Storaro

Contains strong violence, gore and strong language
Classified Date:
30/03/2011
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Independent Cinema Office
violence
There is strong bloody violence when a man is hacked to death, and when a Vietnamese civilian is shot by a machine gun with sight of bloody impact detail. Injury detail is also gory when a US soldier is seen screaming in pain after having his legs blown off and when a severed head is dropped into the lap of another man.
language
There is strong language ('f**k').
additional issues
There is an unsimulated scene of animal killing when a bullock is slaughtered with a machete. There are also uses of racist language, including terms such as 'slopes', 'dinks' and 'gooks', and brief images of sexualised nudity when topless women are seen posing in magazines. Soldiers are also seen smoking marijuana.
Classified Date:
01/12/1995
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
British Film Institute Ltd
Classified Date:
03/10/1979
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia-Emi-Warner Dists Ltd
strong bloody violence, gore, language
Classified Date:
16/08/2019
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Studio Canal
violence
Scenes of bloody violence include people being shot or blown up, including one soldier's legs being blown off by an explosion. Another soldier is impaled with a spear.
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t') as well as more frequent strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker', 'c**ksucker'). There is also use of racist terms (including 'gook' and 'slope'), milder bad language including 'bitch' and 'pussy', and rude hand and finger gestures.
sex
The film also contains a few crude verbal sex references
drugs
There is some misue of drugs and references to drugs.
suicide and self-harm
There are some verbal references to suicide.
injury detail
There is sight of gory injuries, including one man attempting to hold in his guts, and sight of severed heads.
nudity
There is a sequence in which a naked woman walks around a bed on which a man is lying. There is also sight of soft-core 'pin up' images from porn magazines, showing breast nudity. There is also some non sexual nudity, including when corpses are seen.
disturbing images
There is a scene in which a bull is killed using a machete. While the killing is real, the blow kills the animal immediately by severing its spinal cord.
additional issues
There is sight of soft-core 'pin up' images from porn magazines, showing breast nudity. There is also some non sexual nudity, including when corpses are seen. The film also contains a few crude verbal sex references, drug misuse and drug references, and verbal references to suicide. There is a sequence in which a real bull is actually killed using a machete. The animal's spine is severed immediately meaning the kill is both quick and clean and the scene does not comprise a "cruel infliction of pain or terror" in a manner than contravenes the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937 or BBFC Guidelines and policy.
Contains strong bloody violence
Classified Date:
22/12/2004
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Pathe Distribution
Classified Date:
02/10/2000
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
Classified Date:
02/03/1992
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
CIC Video
Classified Date:
17/06/1987
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
CIC Video
Classified Date:
19/06/2019
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Canal
Paperwork Remarks:
Trailer
Classified Date:
31/05/2019
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Studio Canal
Classified Date:
18/04/2011
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Optimum Releasing
Classified Date:
20/10/2000
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
Classified Date:
19/04/2000
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
Classified Date:
12/06/2008
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Paperwork Remarks:
THE COMPLETE DOSSIER (ACT 1)
Classified Date:
15/09/2004
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Pathe Distribution
Paperwork Remarks:
DVD additional material DVD menu

  • Classified date

    16/08/2019

  • BBFC reference

    HVF014093

  • Language

    English

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