Just watch the special effects....they were good! Skip the rest. Dubbing of actors voices was dreadful, plot was padded out with cheesy love story that wasn't needed, commercial jet vapour trails in the sky??....errr...wake up director!! Dreadful modern rock music totally wrecked the atmosphere of the movie. As others have commented...why show the best special effects of the whole movie in the opening scene?? How Daft!In my opinion this movie was dumbed down for a modern young audience to watch for entertainment, not to educate with historical information. Overall, poor!

This two part TV-movie was part of a three movie box set of not so well known war movies that we bought for my son as a Christmas present. So far we have watched two of them and they have both been worthwhile to watch.Unfortunately we found out that this one was one of those cheap DVD's that some arrogant French publisher had dumped on a DVD dubbed to French only. No original language and not even subtitles. That's just so crappy but unfortunately this used to be quite common with DVD's in France and there was no way of seeing it without opening the box set.Anyway, the movie itself is actually not bad. It spans three hours split into two one and a half hour episodes. The actual story is pure fiction loosely based on the bomb conspiracy theories. It is a fairly okay thriller/drama story and, despite knowing that the zeppelin is going to blow up, I took enough interest to follow the characters throughout the movie.It was fun to see Stacy Keach again as well. I always liked watching Mike Hammer when I was younger.The visual effects are not bad. Some people are probably going to complain about historical accuracy. The available space for the passengers, especially their sleeping compartments, seems to have been "enlarged" somewhat for the benefit of the visual impression but that doesn't really bother me that much. It's a fiction movie based on the Hindenburg disaster, not a historical documentary after all.The one thing that bothered me, apart from the French only DVD version, was the way too modern music in the movie. It's supposed to be a 1937 setting so that modern e-guitar stuff was simply disturbing. Very poor choice indeed.

The Hindenburg has always fascinated me and I loved the 1975 version and was hoping this version would be equally as good. Boy was I wrong. It must have been dubbed as I can't believe real actors could ever be so monotoned and cardboard sounding. The lead actor was over bearing, annoying and hard to watch. Even Greta Scacchi, whom I love, was totally wasted in this one. I thought it was most amusing that the lead character gets beaten to a pulp, cleans up, has sex and walks out of the room without a scratch on him - amazing! I also think when a movie is set in 1937, the music throughout should reflect the time period - this one was way off. The crash effects were amazing and probably the best part of the movie. I only wish I'd read the other reviews before I bought the DVD online.

Three hours long and the plot fails to engage the audience.Acting is poor and characters stereotyped. Afraid my mind wandered wildly as "action-man" Merten fell from the sky,was beaten to a pulp(several times) and was generally misunderstood by everybody.What Mert really needed was a hairpin,so he could see what was going on!Clearly the flick was intended to cash in on "Titanic" similarities.Mind you,the way Merten haunted the insides of the big balloon made me feel he could be"the phantom of the Hindenburg" Must not knock the guy to much,his effort was a full-on one and he did disarm the "berm".Wonderful the way his lacerations and bruises washed off! There was a fellow posing as a comedian-actually his role was very similar to that of the compere in "Cabaret",didn't like him at all. Right at the beginning of the film vapor trails can be seen in the sky..UFO's? Unfortunately the Hindenburg did of course go down in flames.A terrible sight.With it went a lot of "unlikable" characters.What a disservice to the real victims of this historic event.