Hindenburg disaster in popular culture
The Hindenburg disaster has featured in a variety of popular culture films, TV programs and books. Film The Hindenburg is a 1975 film about the disaster. Although much of the storyline is fictional, they were based on real bomb threats before the flight began, as well as proponents of the sabotage theory. Hindenburg is a 2011 made-for-TV film starring Maximillian Simonischek, Lauren Lee Smith, Stacy Keach and Greta Scacchi. It was initially aired on RTL dubbed in German as a two-part series and later released as a DVD in English. It was aired in US in 2013 on Encore. Similar to the 1975 film, it focuses on the sabotage theory, though much of the storyline is completely fictional. The 2015 film The Dust Storm includes a song called Hindenburg - a reference to the disaster. In the 2022 crime/mystery movie, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the characters repeatedly referred to the Hindenburg tragedy. Literature In the Neal Stephenson novel Cryptonomicon the fictional character Lawrence Waterhouse is atop a fire tower in the Pine Barrens when he is "distracted by a false sunrise that lit up the clouds off to the northeast." Upon reaching the scene the author describes a