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80 years after the world’s largest airship ignited in a giant fireball, newly discovered footage sparks a reinvestigation of what exactly caused the Hindenburg disaster.

A revealing new investigation of one of history’s most iconic aviation disasters.

Hindenburg: The New Evidence

Newly analyzed amateur footage of the crash shows the airship’s final seconds from a fresh angle—allowing historians for the first time to see the airship from nose to tail just after the fire breaks out.

A new piece of the Hindenburg puzzle has surfaced.

Newly Analyzed Footage Helps Solve Hindenburg Mystery

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The cause of the infamous Hindenburg crash has baffled experts for over 80 years, with theories about the airship’s fire ranging from deliberate sabotage to a spark generated by the stormy conditions in which it landed. But little-known amateur footage of the crash has resurfaced, showing the airship’s final seconds from a fresh angle and in unrivaled clarity. Taking clues from the footage and other sources, NOVA leads a fresh investigation at a leading scientific lab with eye-opening experiments that point to a final solution of the mystery. (Premiered May 19, 2021)

A revealing new investigation of one of history’s most iconic aviation disasters.

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