In 1975, my newly married parents fled Vietnam on a boat. Months later, while living in a refugee camp in the Philippines, they were hired to play extras in Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War film ...

Editor's note: April 30, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. In commemoration, Military Times is highlighting stories about the Vietnam War. The ...

An artist’s parents were extras in Apocalypse Now. But in trying to recenter their experience in her own work, she wondered: whose story was it to tell? On the first day of filming, a small crew set ...

The director readies his self-funded epic 'Megalopolis' for the Croisette, with echoes of his 'Apocalypse Now' journey 45 years ago accompanying him. By Thomas Doherty For his forthcoming one from the ...