A chance encounter throws a young engineer into the depths of a deadly conspiracy that leads to the crash of the Hindenburg zeppelin in 1937.

The National Geographic Society explores the mysterious and dramatic Hindenburg explosion of May 1937 in Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA. The Hindenburg was the largest German Zeppelin that carried passengers, crew, luggage, mail, and a heavy loaf duel. Much like the Titanic, it was revered for its size as well as lavish accommodations. It had made ten round trips between Germany and the United States before its demise.

Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.

"Elemental" is the groundbreaking television event from Academy Award-winning executive producer Robert Zemeckis that reveals how the elements of the periodic table have controlled the outcome of human history. This one-hour drama tells the harrowing story of the Hindenburg disaster. Sophisticated cinematography, animation and spectacular visual effects bring this fiery saga to life in a way no audience has seen before.

The film explores the background and build-up to this final flight to disaster. Using dramatic reconstruction, archive footage and exclusive interviews with leading historians and engineering experts, the special delves into the political and scientific events that led up to the catastrophe.

A professional tennis player struggling with the discovery that he is a child of rape falls prey to an unscrupulous advertising executive and is led to believe that he is a latent rapist.

A man travels back in time in an attempt to stop the Hindenburg disaster.

The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The hydrogen-filled zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly transformed into an enormous fireball. In less than a minute, the entire ship had been consumed by flames. The Hindenburg explosion marked the end of the budding airship travel industry.

This documentary chronicles the political career of World War I hero Paul von Hindenburg, Germany's chancellor from 1925 to 1934. It also explores Hindenburg's instrumental role in the political ascent of his one-time political foe, Adolf Hitler.

The history of lighter than air transportation culminating in the Hindenburg explosion which gets thoroughly covered and analyzed.

A home movie made by a passenger on the zeppelin 'Hindenburg' as it flew from Frankfurt am Main, Germany to Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA starting on 17 September 1936.

Special investigators re-examine the explosion of the zeppelin on May 6, 1937, which claimed the lives of 36 people.

The most celebrated and magnificent flying machine ever built, Hindenburg was a luxury liner in the sky. Stretching 804 feet in length and lifted by seven million cubic feet of hydrogen, the legendary German airship was a stunning technological masterpiece. Including rare, never-before-released footage, this historic video features fascinating details about the first airships used as weapons by the German military during World War I, amazing images onboard Hindenburg where passengers enjoyed breathtaking views of the world - less than 800 feet below, and incredible first-hand accounts from actual crash witnesses and survivors. New scientific evidence from a former NASA engineer whose research - more than 62 years later - reveals what may have actually caused the explosive fireball which killed 36 passengers and crew members.

Short Documentary by Nic Young