Apocalypse Now I | The Fall and Rise of Vietnam (111 BC – 1954)
This ain’t no USO show so hold on to your cavalry hat and jump onboard a Huey for episode 8 of Season 3 of Reel History!
In a new departure, we’re delivering up our first double-barrelled episode in honour of Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war masterpiece ‘Apocalypse Now’ (1979). There really was was just too much to squeeze into one episode and that’s even before we heard Michael struggle to pronounce the names of Vietnamese emperors .
What started out with an infamously chaotic 3-year production (worthy of an episode in itself), this Oscar winner would blossom into an endlessly quotable…
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