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Apocalypse Now (1979)

War • Directed by Unknown

Violence

Violence Statistics

62
On-Screen Deaths
✓ sourced via moviebodycounts.com
0.42 deaths per minute
a killing every 2 min

Film Details

Release Year
1979
Runtime
147 minutes
Rating
Not Rated
Budget
Unknown

Box Office Performance

$78,800,000
$1,270,968 earned per on-screen death

Reality Check: 0.42 On-Screen Deaths per Minute vs. Real U.S. Wars

The real U.S. wars whose per-minute death rate comes closest to this film's — the comparison is always per minute and every war figure is U.S. casualties, never raw totals.

American Civil War

0.24/min
a death every 4 min
1861–1865 • United States
620,000 U.S. deaths

World War II

0.16/min
a death every 6 min
1941–1945 • Global
418,500 U.S. deaths

World War I

0.11/min
a death every 9 min
1917–1918 • Europe
116,516 U.S. deaths

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