Fact-based Oscar-winning disaster movie recounting the final voyage of the gargantuan German airship which crashed outside New York on May 6, 1937, having completed 10 successful crossings of the Atlantic. With George C Scott, Anne Bancroft, Roy Thinnes, Burgess Meredith and Charles Durning.

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.