Anne Bancroft, Burgess Meredith, Charles Durning
In 1937, sabotage causes the airship Hindenburg to crash on arrival at New York.
DVD Release Date: October 27, 1998
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June 1, 2007I nice retelling of the Hindenburg fire and crashing back in May of 1937. George C Scott and Anne Bancroft are the leading actors in this film. I'd love to see it re-maded!. . . "hint-hint!"
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August 28, 2009Very few liberties were taken with the re-telling barring a bold decision in saying that the disaster was sabotage by a German Resistance group (actually a favored theory along with simple malfunction/accident). The problem with this movie is that everything up to the ship blowin...( read more)
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February 1, 2009One historical criticism, the 18 year old love interest was 12 in real life and did not survive. Otherwise, based on reasonably extensive reading of my own, the most likely scenario.
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April 27, 2008Plodding and stodgy, this movie doesn't hold up well at all. It was all so predictable.
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November 2, 2007The Hindenburg was a weird movie about a disaster that truly should not have happened, but in all honesty did put a drastic end to Airship travel, It will never be known if it was Sabatoge, conspiracy or a malfunction we will never truly know.
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May 16, 2007This is very interesting film that delves into the idea that the infamous Hindenburg zeppelin disaster was an act of sabotage rather than a accident. Despite the promise of that idea, the film itself is just another disaster film that is formilaic, cliched and has the same old st...( read more)
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