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The airship Hindenburg, arriving from Europe, was being led to its mooring at Lakehurst, New Jersey when suddenly disaster struck. The hydrogen-filled zeppelin ignited, and was almost instantly transformed into an enormous fireball. In less than a minute, the entire ship had been consumed by flames. The Hindenburg explosion marked the end of the budding airship travel industry.
Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Department and Signal Corp to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the Alliance.
Catastrophe-No Safe Place is a 1980's documentary series presented by Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland presenting different catastrophic events around the world. But they dug into the events leading up to the event whether it was a bad location or engineering mistakes or unauthorized modifications made by the contractors who built the thing, to seismic or volcanic events.
Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton’s sponsored documentary on Britain’s malnutrition crisis, blending expert testimony (Julian Huxley, J. B. Orr, A. V. Hill/Gowland Hopkins) with school-meal scenes and simple charts to link low income to poor diets and argue for “protective” foods and public provision. Commissioned by the gas industry, it plays like a brisk scientific lecture-film that helped push nutrition into public debate.
Documentary that narrates the birth of airships in Germany.
A nervy young man follows a pretty lady into a diner to flirt with her, but winds up getting stuck with the tab.
