Heart of Darkness Resources
Movie or TV Productions
"Heart of Darkness" (episode #7) from Playhouse 90, Season 3, directed by Anthony Barr.
Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is a based on Heart of Darkness set during the Vietnam War.
Heart of Darkness with John Malkovich as Kurtz.
Documentary, directed by Derek Jones.
The TV series Lost is loosely based off Heart of Darkness.
King Kong, directed by Peter Jackson, has many references to Heart of Darkness.
Videos
Audios
NPR interviews Nigerian author Chinua Achebe on Heart of Darkness, which he considers "inappropriate" because of its depiction of Africans.
John Powell’s “Rhapsodie Negre” was inspired by Heart of Darkness. Amazon.com offers a preview of the song. You can also learn more about John Powell here.
Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre perform Conrad's story.
Images
This is a map of the Congo from the early 1900s, the time in which Heart of Darkness is set.
An Oxford World Classics book cover.
A photo of Joseph Conrad.
Documents
The Conradian tells about Conrad and his roots in Eastern Europe.
"An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness" by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, the writer of Things Fall Apart. (PDF)
The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot, a poem inspired by Heart of Darkness.
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