Adventure drama films (Film Guide) Cast Away, Deliverance, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Bounty, Apocalypse Now, Where the Wild Things Are, The Guardian, 127 Hours, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Bear - neues Buch

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 88. Chapters: Cast Away, Deliverance, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Bounty, Apocalypse Now, Where the Wild Things Are, The Guardian, 127 Hours, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Bear, The Red Baron, Lifeboat, Dinosaur, Mutiny on the Bounty, Alive, Fitzcarraldo, Flight of the Phoenix, The Flight of the Phoenix, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Never Cry Wolf, Walkabout, The Wages of Fear, Black Robe, L'Avventura, Mogambo, Crusade in Jeans, The Children of Huang Shi, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, The Naked Prey, Dersu Uzala, Lord of the Flies, The Yellow Rolls-Royce, Papillon, The Blue Lagoon, The Fox and the Child, Captains Courageous, White Hunter Black Heart, The Prisoner of Zenda, Limbo, The World, the Flesh and the Devil, Texas Rangers, Ceiling Zero, The Giant of Marathon, Fire Down Below, Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey, Ivanhoe, The Red Tent, The Naked Jungle, Bird of Paradise, The Island, Mountains of the Moon, Tycoon, Slave Ship, Kidnapped, Elephant Boy, City Beneath the Sea, Scream of Stone, The Seekers, Bare Knuckles, Death in the Garden, The Trap, Danny Boy, Owls' Castle, Daphne and the Pirate, War Dogs, Fukuro no Shiro, Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Klondike, The Call of the Wild, Prisoner of Zenda, Inc., Kangaroo, Diamond City, Everything is Thunder. Excerpt: Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic film set during the Vietnam War. The plot revolves around two US Army special operations officers, one of whom, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) of MACV-SOG, is sent into the jungle to assassinate the other, the rogue and presumably insane Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando) of Special Forces. The film was produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script by Coppola and John Milius. The script is based on Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness, and also draws elements from Michael Herr's Dispatches, the film version of Conrad's Lord Jim (which shares the same character of Marlow with Heart of Darkness), and Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). The film became notorious in the entertainment press due to its lengthy and troubled production, as documented in Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. Marlon Brando showed up to the set overweight and Martin Sheen suffered a heart attack. The production was also beset by extreme weather that destroyed several expensive sets. In addition, the release date of the film was delayed several times as Coppola struggled to come up with an ending and to edit the thousands of feet of footage that he had shot. The film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Drama. The film was also deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" and selected for preservation by the National Film Registry in 2000. The story takes place from late 1968 through 1969. The film opens by introducing Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen), a deeply troubled, seasoned special operations veteran. Willard has returned to Saigon from deployment in the field. He drinks excessively and appears to be having difficulty adjusting to life in the rear-area. Two intelligence officers, Lt. General Corman (G. D. Spradlin) and Colonel Lucas (Harrison Ford), and a government