47 Years Later, the Greatest War Movie's Final Line Still Officially Defines the Genre

War is something that many of us don't know firsthand, and many of us will never understand. Movies attempt to rationalize and dramatize it with stories of victory, defeat, survival, or sacrifice. While many of these films have earned their place among cinema's most legendary features, few have captured the experience and presented it without the glory or the valor; simply put, few have presented it with horror. This is why the final line of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now continues to hit hard, even 47 years after its release, and why it's one of the greatest endings in any war movie.