♾️ Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 US science fiction adventure film. It features Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, and John Huston. ♾️ Ten years after a worldwide series of ape revolutions and a brutal nuclear war among humans, Caesar must protect survivors of both species from an insidious human cult and a militant ape faction alike.