Initially, documentaries about entertainment were extended advertisements. The Making of ‘The Godfather’ (1971) was a 30-minute promotional short. The shift began with Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991), which documented Francis Ford Coppola’s manic production of Apocalypse Now . For the first time, a documentary showed an auteur on the verge of collapse—not as a triumph, but as a trauma. This opened the door for a less sanitized view of production.
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