For a deeper look into the industry's inner workings, these documentaries provide specific perspectives: The Creative Process: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
The turning point arrived in 1971 with The Hellstrom Chronicle (a sci-fi documentary hybrid) and, more directly, in 1994 with Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse . This documentary about the making of Apocalypse Now showed director Francis Ford Coppola losing weight, going into debt, and suffering a mental breakdown. It was the first time the public saw that making a movie wasn't glamorous; it was warfare.
