Francis Ford Coppola
1979
This is a true Independent epic - which had the director put millions of his own money in to make sure it survived, and what a film it is. This is proof alone that Independent films go far deeper than mainstream Hollywood dare to tread.
Apocalypse Now
During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.