Hindenburg is a 2011 made-for-TV film starring Maximillian Simonischek, Lauren Lee Smith, Stacy Keach and Greta Scacchi.
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."
In The Martian by Andy Weir, during The Great Hydrogen Scare of Sol 37, Watney states how the Hab is his private Hindenburg, ready to explode.
In The Hindenburg Murders by Max Allan Collins, a fictionalised version of thriller author Leslie Charteris investigates possible sabotage on the airship.
[1] The cover of Led Zeppelin's self-titled debut album shows a stylized photo of the Hindenburg disaster with the band's name in the upper left corner.
The song "The Blimp" by Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band as issued on their 1969 Straight Records album Trout Mask Replica is a parody of Morrison's live description of the disaster as aired on radio the following day.
The song, "From The Sky", by Protest The Hero (Palimpsest, 2020) uses the disaster as an allegory for the glorification of historical events despite society's selective memory of details that do not fit the desired narrative.
In season 2, episode 17 of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, the twist at the end of "Bon Voyage" reveals that the story has been taking place on the Hindenburg moments before the crash.
The episode "The Puerto Rican Day" features a subplot in which George attempts to deliver a comical line ("That's gotta hurt!")
In the 1992 episode of The Simpsons, "Lisa the Beauty Queen", the Hindenburg disaster is parodied as Barney Gumble pilots the Duff Beer blimp with disastrous results, culminating with Kent Brockman reporting the scene by stating, "Oh, the humanity!
In Rescue Me's first-season episode "Kansas", Sean Garrity learns about the Hindenburg disaster after his crew made fun of him for not knowing what it was.
In the season 11 episode of Family Guy titled "Yug Ylimaf", Brian goes back in time to the Hindenburg disaster to have sex with a woman he met.
In the season 4 episode titled "The Cleveland–Loretta Quagmire", Peter Griffin owns a zeppelin with his face on it that he calls the "Hindenpeter", which crashes in the same fashion as the Hindenburg, but in the Swansons' property.
The pilot episode of the NBC TV series Timeless (3 October 2016) revolves around a criminal who steals a time machine in an effort to alter the events of the past, starting with the Hindenburg disaster.
Season One, Episode Six of The Umbrella Academy includes a plot line in which Number Five must guarantee the Hindenburg disaster happens through his work with the Temps Commission.
The episode posits that Joseph Späh was the original saboteur, but changed his mind about carrying out the disaster after all and leading Number Five to come up with an alternative solution.
[3] While their experiments did not concern what actually started the fire, the show's hosts, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, demonstrated that when set alight with a blowtorch a 1:50 scale model of the Hindenburg burnt twice as fast in the presence of diffused hydrogen as without it.
The National Geographic Channel program Seconds From Disaster had veteran air crash investigator Greg Feith study all of the available evidence, including eyewitness accounts, interviews with the last two living survivors, newsreel footage, weather reports, and the Hindenburg blueprints.
[16] The day after, the local newspaper Jornal do Brasil published photos of the crash with the headline "Isto é desumano" (meaning "This is inhuman" in Portuguese) on its front cover.
[19] In the present day, airships are used for civilian uses such as airlines, while airplanes are now relegated to military use with no passenger carrying planes built since the Dornburg crash.
[22][23] In addition, the development of jet engines happens later and is much slower than in real life with the first all-jet air force not set to exist until 2025.
[24] Also, the rock band "Lead Aeroplane" (a fictional analogue of Led Zeppelin) is named after the disaster and used the Jornal do Brasil front page showing the crash as the cover of their self-titled debut album in 1971, with their logo replacing the paper's nameplate.