To his credit, Coppola agreed to let the footage shot by his wife become a full-length documentary and never told directors Bahr and Hickenlooper (who took over the project and re-interviewed most of the key players shortly before the film's 1991 release) that they couldn't include unflattering scenes. But as we discover from the DVD commentary, which features both Francis and Eleanor Coppola but seems to have been edited together from separate narrations, he only agreed to that because he thought the film would be shown on television twice before disappearing forever.

Thankfully, although it's been far too long, and this documentary should have been included in Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier as a bonus feature, that didn't happen. Besides that, the only legitimate criticisms that can be made about this long-awaited DVD release is that the audio commentary is spectacularly superfluous, adding little information that wasn't already included on Coppola's commentary for The Complete Dossier. And although it does have a lot of talking by Eleanor Coppola, she doesn't have much to add to what she already says in her narration of the documentary itself.

If you're a fan of Apocalypse Now and haven't already seen Hearts of Darkness, you're not really a fan and must buy this now. Just don't expect too many audio commentary revelations and plan on skipping the only other bonus feature, a totally irrelevant making-of documentary by Eleanor of hubby Francis at work on his latest film, Youth Without Youth.