Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American director and movie producer. He directed the "Godfather" trilogy and the Vietnam War epic "Apocalypse Now". He is part of the group called the New Hollywood. This group includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman, and George Lucas. In the 1970s they made movies in a different way.