The Making of Apocalypse Now: How John Milius and Coppola’s Film Captured the Vietnam War
50 years ago, on the 21st of January, 1968, more than 100,000 North Vietnamese invaded the village of Khe Sanh and the 6,000 US marines stationed there (Schmitz & David). This highly-coordinated invasion caught the American forces, alongside their South Vietnamese allies, completely off guard, and marked the first flashpoint of what would later … Read more