Extended cut of Francis Ford Coppola's war epic. The Vietnam War rages in 1969 and US Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent on a mission to assassinate Special Forces Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a renegade American Army officer who has set up his own kingdom in the heart of the jungle. Willard's journey begins with a devastating aerial assault on a small Vietnamese village and becomes progressively more deranged as it moves up the river towards Kurtz's stronghold in Cambodia.