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FLASHBACK: THE HINDENBURG: SHIP OF DOOM (TV)
Summary
One in this series of historical documentaries. This presentation interweaves actual footage with dramatic re-enactment of the events and circumstances that led to the fiery destruction of the German airship Hindenburg at Lakehurst, New Jersey, on May 6, 1937. Also examined are the people whose lives were drastically altered by the docking and subsequent explosion of the airship. (Presented under the umbrella of "Flashback.")
Details
- NETWORK: HBO
- DATE: November 22, 1980 Saturday 7:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:32:50
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T82:0694
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries; Education/Information
- SUBJECT HEADING: Hindenburg (airship); Drama, historical; Air-ships; Aviation - 1937
- SERIES RUN: HBO - TV, 1980
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- David Loxton … Executive Producer
- Fred Barzyk … Producer
- Jacqueline Leopold … Associate Producer
- Olivia Tappan … Associate Producer
- Peter Hoving … Director
- Sarah Stein … Director
- John Crowley … Writer
- Kevin Conway … Narrator
- Elayne Bromka … Cast, Gertrud Adelt
- John Clarkson … Cast, Captain Pruss
- John Cunningham … Cast, Commodore Rosendahl
- Ben Hammer … Cast, Moritz Feibush
- James Hurdle … Cast, Leonhard Adelt
- Nicholas Kepros … Cast, Chief Steward Kubis
- Jeurgen Kuehn … Cast, Chief Engineer Sauter
- Robert Prosky … Cast, Captain Lehmann
- Eda Seasongood … Cast, Margaret Mather
- Christopher Wynkoop … Cast, Colonel Fritz Erdmann