This must be the worst Hindenburg disaster movie ever made, with regard to factual information.
SPOILER BEGINS
We are led to believe that there is a bomb aboard, someone is smuggling secret documents, the person who was responsible for the bomb was killed.
These are just three of the fallacies put forward in the movie.
Although the Captain of the Hindenburg, Max Pruss, who survived the disaster, always maintained that the reason for the disaster was due to a bomb planted on the airship there is not a shred of evidence to support this, in fact in 2012 it was proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Hindenburg perished because of an explosion caused by hydrogen gas used to inflate the ship.
There was never any suggestion that a crew member was smuggling secret documents on board and no one was killed on board prior to the terrible disaster.
SPOILER ENDS
It truly annoys me that movies makers make the plot up as they go along about true disasters.
If a movie is going to be made about disasters they should be factual, although we must accept a little poetic licence.
In the case of this movie though about the only factual thing about it is the Hindenburg took off, arrived in the US, caught fire and crashed.
All the rest was complete fiction.
At least I did not see the words "Based on a true story" appear on the screen.
SPOILER BEGINS
We are led to believe that there is a bomb aboard, someone is smuggling secret documents, the person who was responsible for the bomb was killed.
These are just three of the fallacies put forward in the movie.
Although the Captain of the Hindenburg, Max Pruss, who survived the disaster, always maintained that the reason for the disaster was due to a bomb planted on the airship there is not a shred of evidence to support this, in fact in 2012 it was proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Hindenburg perished because of an explosion caused by hydrogen gas used to inflate the ship.
There was never any suggestion that a crew member was smuggling secret documents on board and no one was killed on board prior to the terrible disaster.
SPOILER ENDS
It truly annoys me that movies makers make the plot up as they go along about true disasters.
If a movie is going to be made about disasters they should be factual, although we must accept a little poetic licence.
In the case of this movie though about the only factual thing about it is the Hindenburg took off, arrived in the US, caught fire and crashed.
All the rest was complete fiction.
At least I did not see the words "Based on a true story" appear on the screen.