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Hindenburg: The Last Flight (2011)
Complete Work of Fiction - Heads up before watching this
A second re-telling of the Hindenburg disaster, however this time, the entire story is not just fictional, it's total fantasy, including much of the history surrounding the event and the airship itself, embellished with a lot of Titanic-esque scenes which over-glamorize the entire event. If you are a Zeppelin enthusiast, it's best to go into this film knowing this, or just skip the movie altogether. The filmmakers are obviously going for a young, hip audience here. The plot, again based on the theory that the ship was sabotaged, would have been more plausible had the script not been so laughable at times (both Captains Max Pruss and Ernst Lehmann, it seems, are intended to be shown as complete SOB's - they weren't, and it's a shame to see them portrayed in this manner), along with an amazing lack of attention to technical detail. This is not to say there was not a lot of attention paid towards nice sets and and good CGI; it just isn't accurate. The passenger accommodations are far too lavish, and the ship is shown in flight with all it's mooring ropes hanging down. And as fiery and dramatic as the real crash was, the special effects crew went a little overboard here, setting the control car ablaze and having an engine tumble several times with the propeller blade flying off towards the fleeing ground crew (again, a la "Titanic"). OK, cool and dramatic, but it never happened, so why add it in? The story would have been more fitting for a fictional airship, rather than one that so many people are already familiar with. Considering today's special effects capabilities, a good story about the Hindenburg could come off quite nicely, but this one comes up short. For a much more true-to-reality interpretation, check out Robert Wise's original 1975 version of "The Hindenburg" instead.