Eleanor Coppola, Hearts of Darkness director and matriarch of famed filmmaker family, dead at 87

Eleanor Coppola, a writer and director who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of Apocalypse Now, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.

Eleanor Coppola, Hearts of Darkness director and matriarch of famed filmmaker family, dead at 87
Eleanor Coppola is seen at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2016.

Eleanor Coppola, a writer and director who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola's iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of Apocalypse Now, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.