A film peeling apparatus that peels off a film from a peeling object having the film and a substrate, the film peeling apparatus including a base; a conveying unit to hold a first side of the peeling object and to turn the peeling object from a parallel orientation with respect to the base to a perpendicular orientation with respect to the base; a first peeling unit to receive the peeling object from the conveying unit and to hold a second side of the peeling object in the perpendicular orientation; a second peeling unit to hold the first side of the peeling object, the second peeling unit facing the first peeling unit; and a knife unit that is reciprocably movable toward and away from an edge of the peeling object and movable along an edge of the peeling object.