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Lakehurst/New Jersey, May 6th 1937, 7 pm: The "Hindenburg" has come all the way from Europe - a luxurious flying hotel, faster than any ship. The pride of the Third Reich prepares to land, and hundreds of onlookers have gathered to watch.

Then, all of a sudden, a burst of flame just forward of the upper fin. In a matter of seconds, the largest airship ever built goes down in a fiery blaze.

35 people died in the flames - and nobody knew why. Sabotage? A bolt of lightning? The mystery surrounding the disaster has never been resolved - until now. In many years of research, a NASA scientist at Cape Canaveral has found proof that neither the hydrogen in the hull nor a bomb was to blame, but the fabric of the Hindenburg's outer skin and a new protective coating. A single spark of static electricity was enough to make it burn like dry leaves. The "infallible" German engineers had designed a flying bomb just waiting to explode.

Featuring stunning visuals, rare historic material (some of it digitally colorized), professional re-enactment and computer animation, Titanic of the Sky tells the Hindenburg's true story in a way it has never been told before.

For the first time, we are able to include amazing footage filmed on board during the last voyage of the Hindenburg. The film survived the disaster inside the camera, but its owner did not.

60 years after their narrow escape from death, we join the Hindenburg's youngest crewmember and the last surviving passenger as they meet in Lakehurst for the first time after the crash. Their moving story is the center of an emotionally gripping narrative that recaptures the age of airships from its optimistic beginnings to its bitter end in the charred remains of the "Hindenburg".