In the late afternoon of May 6, 1937, Manhattanites who looked to the sky would’ve been treated to a nearly unbelievable sight: A gleaming, giant silver Zeppelin—the biggest in the world ...

Read more about the Hindenburg disaster: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/80th-anniversary-hindenburg-disaster-mysteries-remain-180963107 ...

Hindenburg Research calls the May 6, 1937, disaster "the epitome of a totally man-made, totally avoidable disaster ...

Later in the movie, the bad guy's entire lair was fueled on hydrogen gas, and the entire building ended up incinerating itself in a Hindenburg-style disaster at the very end. Of course ...

For decades, experts believed they knew what caused the Hindenburg disaster: that leaking hydrogen ignited and caused the airship to burst into flames. But there may be more to this story.