The Vietnam War of the 1970s was the first war to show real footage of terror on television. It's the war that shocked the World, which obviously intrigued legendary director Francis Ford Copolla as he created a movie about it only a matter of years later. Apocalypse Now met mixed reviews at opening (like it does with Verity and Shaun here), but has gone on to be hailed as one of the greatest movies of all-time. Establishing tropes that war movies still incorporate today, its impact is widespread. One noteable example is this year's Oscar-contending war movies of choice 1917 - released 40 years to the year after Copolla's movie - which works on a very similar level. But which do we prefer; which is better? And perhaps more importantly: how has cinema changed and evolved over the past 40 years?

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